Scott Opell
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Opell is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems and hardening production services. Currently at Datadog, he focuses on security and stability of core agent software—fixing token-handling vulnerabilities, redacting sensitive output, and hardening configuration parsing against unexpected Unicode. His background includes multi-year engineering work at Bloomberg and early systems and tooling roles that reflect strong testing and design discipline from his time at Purdue. Scott combines pragmatic backend development with attention to observability and security, and has contributed to the widely used datadog-agent open-source project to improve robustness in real-world deployments.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (10)
it-security10
configuration-management10
go10
security10
logging9
observability9
monitoring8
tracer8
trace8
apm-agent8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:291 reviews, 59 commits, 206 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the security and stability of the Datadog Agent. Their contributions included addressing vulnerabilities related to authentication tokens by trimming whitespace and redacting sensitive information in the agent's status output. They also implemented code to handle unexpected Unicode characters in the configuration, improving the overall robustness and reliability of the agent's configuration loading. Furthermore, the user was involved in fixing bugs and adding logging features.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
scottopell/madv
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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