Spencer Lee-brown
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Lee-brown is an experienced software engineer with 11 years in cloud and observability engineering, most recently contributing to Datadog’s core agent and network performance monitoring. He combines hands-on systems programming—implementing intrahost connection classification in the Datadog Agent’s eBPF subsystem—with customer-facing solutions engineering and team leadership experience across APAC and EMEA. Comfortable moving between Go, Python, and distributed systems, he has a track record of shipping reliable monitoring features and improving telemetry for complex network topologies. Spencer’s background in on-site customer enablement and hiring/mentoring teams gives him a practical appreciation for usability and operational robustness that complements his low-level networking work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Junior, Computer Science, Junior at Columbia University in the City of New York
English
Github Skills (11)
monitoring10
go10
tracer10
trace10
ebpf10
networking9
observability8
distributed-tracing8
go-testing8
metric7
datadog7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 243 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Spencer contributed to the Datadog Agent, focusing on network traffic classification within the ebpf subsystem. Their primary contribution involved implementing an intrahost classification algorithm to identify and label connections where the source and destination addresses are equivalent, accounting for NAT and loopback interfaces. This involved modifying existing Go code, adding unit tests, and integrating the changes within the agent's network state management. The work directly improved the agent's ability to monitor and analyze network traffic.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
stb2132/dnsstress
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Simple Go program to stress test DNS servers
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
golangdns-serversstress-testdns
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