Richard Klein
Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolRichard Klein is a senior engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams across startups and large tech firms. He has led SDK and developer experience efforts at Google and now heads Real User Monitoring SDKs at Datadog, bringing observability to a wide range of devices. As a co-founder and early engineering leader at Smash.gg and other startups, he combines hands-on system architecture (React/GraphQL stacks, e-commerce, analytics) with proven hiring and cultural-building chops that grew teams from single digits to dozens. Comfortable shipping consumer web, mobile, and game platform tooling, he excels at turning complex integrations into smooth developer experiences. Based in Madrid and educated at Georgia Tech, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with enterprise-scale delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (42)
hugo10
javascript10
firebase-authentication10
bootstrap10
typescript10
firebase-realtime-database10
firebase-storage10
datadog10
firebase-db10
firebase-database10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
firebase10
firebase-messaging10
documentation10
css9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smashgg/Twitch-SDK
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
apitwitchtv-apiapi-sdkphptwitchtv
allspain/browser-sdk-shadow-reviews
Apr 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:5 PRs, 87 branches in 20 days
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