Sophia Russell
Staff Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Russell is a Staff Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across full-stack and SRE domains. She progressed from full-stack development into site reliability and engineering leadership at Betterment before joining Datadog, demonstrating a strong track record of improving system reliability and operational maturity. Known for being eager, ambitious, and joyfully productive, she combines hands-on coding with cross-team coordination to deliver measurable platform improvements. Her background in English and French and early roles in publishing and teaching give her uncommon strengths in documentation, stakeholder communication, and mentoring. Colleagues describe her as focused and passionate—someone who moves quickly from idea to production while keeping long-term maintainability in mind.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
First year completed research grant offered to return English and French Literature, First year completed research grant offered to return English and French Literature at Smith CollegeBA Honors College graduated Cum Laude ENGLISH FRENCH, BA Honors College graduated Cum Laude ENGLISH FRENCH at College of CharlestonBuist!
French
Github Skills (116)
amazon-kinesis10
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
delayed-job10
feature-toggle10
github-app10
html10
netsuite10
rails10
capybara10
code-review9
testing9
javascript-client9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
agirlnamedsophia/fizzbuzzsophia
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
ruby-on-railsreactrailsrubyreact-rails
akellehe/collaborative_filtering
Feb 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
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