Shawn Wu
Software Engineer at Datadog
Dublin, Dublin 1, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Wu is a software engineer focused on distributed systems and high-throughput backend services, currently building observability and platform features at Datadog. With four years of industry experience across Oscar Health and Datadog, he brings practical expertise in production-grade services and scalability challenges. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from NYU and began his technical foundation studying measuring and control systems at Tianjin University, reflecting a blend of hardware-aware thinking and modern software practices. A former visiting student at KAUST, Shawn combines academic rigor with hands-on product engineering. Based in Dublin, he’s comfortable navigating cross-border teams and complex operational environments. Colleagues note his knack for simplifying instrumented systems and making performance trade-offs explicit.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at New York UniversityBachelor's degree, Measuring and Controlling Technologies and Instruments, Bachelor's degree, Measuring and Controlling Technologies and Instruments at Tianjin UniversityVisiting student @VCC, Visiting student @VCC at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
hugo9
datadog9
documentation8
ssrf6
python6
server-side5
injection5
java4
dashboard3
monitoring3
security3
command-injection3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spottsdd/katacoda-scenarios
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
spottsdd/learning-center-assets
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Assets and resources used in the Training team's labs.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
assetstraining
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