Srdjan Grubor
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolSrdjan Grubor is an Engineering Manager and hands-on generalist with 15 years building secure, cloud-native systems and leading agent/runtime teams at Datadog. He combines deep systems and security expertise (TLS, TCP/IP, cryptography, Linux, networking) with pragmatic DevOps and cloud skills—Docker, Kubernetes, CI, and large-scale agent development—to improve reliability and observability. His background includes significant contributions to OSS security tooling (Conjur, Secretless Broker) and core Datadog projects such as datadog-agent and datadogpy, where he improved stability, performance, and telemetry. A practiced polyglot engineer (Go, Python, Ruby, C, Java) who started as a founding engineer on Endless OS, he thrives on refactoring brittle systems and reducing attack surface (e.g., flattening Docker images). Based in Missouri, he pairs technical leadership with active open-source maintenance, often tackling low-level race conditions, test hardening, and cross-team integration challenges.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
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Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
testing10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
telemetry10
unit-testing9
ruby9
multithreading9
performance-optimization9
android-imageview9
logging8
apm-agent8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1070 reviews, 126 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Srdjan contributed to the Datadog Agent, focusing on improvements to the Dogstatsd component. Their work involved fixing parsing errors in the event header, initializing telemetry counters for check runs, and resolving issues related to the agent's Python loader. The user also addressed agent crashes related to the rtloader and improved JMXFetch version management. These contributions demonstrate expertise in improving the agent's reliability and performance.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/datadogpy
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
The Datadog Python library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 33 commits, 48 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Srdjan primarily focused on improving the Datadog Python library's dogstatsd component. They made substantial changes to the test suite, refactoring assertions and addressing linting issues. Further contributions included performance improvements to telemetry serialization and enhancing the thread safety of buffer operations. The user also fixed Unicode handling for metric texts and addressed issues in dedicated endpoint telemetry.
golangpython-librarypythonmetricsdatadog
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