Scott Sheffield
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolScott Sheffield is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience crafting user-focused web interfaces and data visualizations, currently building security dataviz at Datadog from his base in New York. He blends a creator’s mindset—rooted in an early love of LEGO—with deep front-end expertise honed at Spotify and LinkedIn, delivering performant, intuitive experiences for diverse audiences. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs artisanal attention to HTML/CSS/JavaScript with pragmatic backend familiarity from Scala/Java environments. Known for treating UX as engineering, he focuses on delight and accessibility while meeting real-world performance constraints. Scott’s career shows a pattern of transforming conceptual ideas into polished, production-ready products at scale. He brings a playful but disciplined creative spark that drives practical innovation in complex product spaces.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Central Piedmont Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
firmware10
quill10
usb10
html-editor10
trend10
react-component10
keyboard10
wysiwyg10
arm10
spotify10
text-editing10
rich-text-editor10
atmel9
rte9
contenteditable9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scottsheffield/qmk_firmware
Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
firmwareavratmelusbatmel-avr
scottsheffield/reactochart
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
:chart_with_upwards_trend: React chart component library :chart_with_downwards_trend: - https://spotify.github.io/reactochart/docs/
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
chartsreactchartchart-componentchart-library
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