Philip Stephenson
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Stephenson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable systems, currently advancing observability products at Datadog in New York. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at Datadog—from SRE co-op to Senior Engineer—demonstrating deep operational knowledge alongside application development. His background includes co-op software engineering at SAP and Ascensus, giving him early exposure to enterprise software and robust development practices. Philip blends reliability-focused thinking with hands-on coding, making him adept at shipping production-ready features that survive at scale. Though not a prolific public GitHub presence, his steady internal progression at a leading monitoring platform implies strong cross-team collaboration and impact on critical infrastructure. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Drexel University and brings a pragmatic, systems-first perspective to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Drexel UniversityHigh School, High School at McCallie School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
minecraft10
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spigot10
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bukkit10
entities10
plugin10
pocketmine10
statistics9
hugo9
security9
python9
profiling9
datadog9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kingbirdy/ProjectKorra
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:67 pushes, 47 branches in 6 months
minecraftbukkitpluginspigotprojectkorra
philip-iv/philip-iv.github.io
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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