Riley Powell
Technical Escalation Engineer II
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Powell is a Technical Escalation Engineer II at Datadog with over six years of hands-on experience across observability, monitoring, and cloud platforms. Specializing in authentication and authorization (AAA), identity provider integrations, and SAML/OIDC workflows, Riley bridges identity systems with front-end observability to help enterprise customers achieve secure, scalable visibility. They pair deep troubleshooting of distributed tracing, agent telemetry, and dashboard rendering with a track record of escalating and resolving the toughest production incidents. Known as a top performer who mentors peers, Riley also contributes to long-term product reliability by partnering with engineering teams on root-cause fixes and platform improvements. Based in Sydney, they combine consulting-era adaptability with solutions-engineer communication skills to translate complex technical needs into practical, customer-facing outcomes.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
St Joseph's College Hunters Hillbachelor of ebusiness, Management Information Systems, General, bachelor of ebusiness, Management Information Systems, General at Macquarie University
Github Skills (3)
datadog8
hugo8
documentation7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rilos1/github-actions-tutorial
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
rilos1/githubcloudformation
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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