Rey Abolofia
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRey Abolofia is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems in Go, Python, and Ruby, currently contributing to Datadog’s agent for serverless telemetry. He has held senior and lead roles at Datadog, Stitch Fix, and New Relic, where he improved observability tooling—such as enhancing New Relic’s Go agent instrumentation for Echo and adding context-aware transactions. Rey combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and leadership aspirations, preferring highly collaborative teams where he can shape technical direction. Notably, his open-source work has directly improved serverless metrics collection and telemetry integration in a major monitoring agent, reflecting a focus on production-grade telemetry and test robustness.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Clarinet Performance, Bachelor's Degree, Clarinet Performance at Portland State University
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Github Skills (25)
observability10
distributed-tracing10
go10
serverless10
metric10
tracer9
http9
tensorflow9
apm-agent9
error-handling9
keras9
trace9
logging9
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/go-agent
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
New Relic Go Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 706 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rey's commits primarily focused on enhancing the New Relic Go Agent, with a concentration on improving the instrumentation for the Echo framework. They introduced tests for the Echo framework support, added support for the `FromContext` method, which adds the transaction to the context, and provided an example of how to use the Echo instrumentation. Additionally, the user has improved transaction naming, error handling, and the inclusion of response codes.
gonewrelic
DataDog/datadog-agent
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 444 reviews, 55 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rey primarily contributed to the serverless functionality within the Datadog agent. Their work focused on refining the metrics collection and telemetry API integration for serverless environments. They addressed various issues including fixing flaky tests, optimizing code for enhanced metrics, and refactoring the code base to support the telemetry API for improved data collection and analysis. The user's contributions directly impacted the agent's ability to effectively monitor and collect data from serverless functions.
datadogmonitoringgoapm-agentapm-instrumentation
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