Sam Brenner
Software Engineer at Datadog Inc
Summary
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RockstarSam Brenner is a software engineer with four years of experience focused on backend systems and open-source observability tooling. As an OSS contributor and ML observability enthusiast, he has driven significant refactors and feature work on Datadog’s dd-trace-js APM client, notably redesigning GraphQL instrumentation into a plugin system and modernizing Couchbase and Tedious integrations. He combines pragmatic engineering—bug fixes and performance improvements—with platform-minded design that makes instrumentation more extensible for downstream users. Based in the United States, Sam brings a strong practical focus on production-ready observability for server-side JavaScript environments.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
graphql10
javascript10
nodejs10
opentracing10
trace10
tracer10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
apm10
couchbase9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-js
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Datadog APM client for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:217 reviews, 113 commits, 134 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily worked on refactoring and enhancing the GraphQL instrumentation within the Datadog APM client for Node.js. Their contributions involved rewriting the GraphQL integration with a new plugin system, adding support for new functionalities, fixing bugs, and improving overall performance. The user also made changes to the Couchbase and Tedious instrumentation to support newer versions of the respective SDKs. Furthermore, the user improved the codebase by implementing new features and improving the existing instrumentation of spans.
apmjavascripttracingapm-tracertracer
sabrenner/anthropic-quickstarts
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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