Samantha Drago-kramer
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Drago-kramer is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building production-quality systems across high-growth consumer and observability companies. She advanced through engineering roles at Datadog, Petal, Attentive, and Etsy, combining hands-on software development with a knack for scaling services and mentoring teams. Her background includes customer-facing solutions engineering early in her career and a liberal arts degree from Harvard in History and Science, which informs her analytical, cross-disciplinary approach to product problems. Now leading at Etsy, she brings both startup agility and enterprise rigor to architecture and delivery, with a track record of moving quickly from prototype to reliable production. An uncommon strength is her blend of client-facing empathy and deep technical execution, making her effective at translating user needs into robust engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History and Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History and Science at Harvard UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at Dev Bootcamp
Spanish
Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
hugo10
mysql10
scaling10
scale10
sql10
datadog10
database-cluster10
clustering10
documentation10
database10
horizontal-scaling9
tidb9
vitess9
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samanthadrago/samanthadrago.github.io
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
samanthadrago/datadogpy
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
golangpython-librarypythondatadog
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