Shirley Berry
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShirley Berry is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput streaming and batch data systems, now contributing at Datadog from New York. She has led engineering teams at Xandr to improve data freshness and reduce latency—cutting frontend response times by 60% and lowering Kafka load by 80%—while owning migrations from Vertica to SingleStore. Comfortable across the stack, Shirley has delivered client-facing features in PHP/React, crafted large-scale Kafka and Hadoop pipelines in Java, and integrated video players with Prebid on prominent open-source demos. Her background combines an MS in Computer Science from NYU Tandon with a BA in Classics from Yale, reflecting both rigorous technical training and a habit of meticulous, research-minded problem solving. She excels at turning operational pain points into measurable reliability gains and mentoring teams to become subject-matter experts.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringHigh School, High School at The Chapin SchoolWeb Development, Web Development at Flatiron SchoolBA Classics (Greek and Latin), BA Classics (Greek and Latin) at Yale UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at General Assembly
French, Latin, Greek
Github Skills (6)
html10
video-ads10
javascript10
front-end-development10
prebid10
videojs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/prebid.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Repo that controls Prebid.org website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shirley primarily focused on updating video player demos within the Prebid.org website repository. Their work involved modifying HTML and JavaScript files to integrate Prebid with various video players such as Ooyala, JW Player, Brightcove, and Video.js. Key contributions include implementing Prebid Server integration, fixing Brightcove demo functionality, and updating player configurations for optimal ad serving and playback. These changes demonstrate a focus on frontend integration of Prebid with video ad serving.
prebid
shirleylberry/prebid.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Repo that controls Prebid.org website
Contributions:44 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
prebid
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