Steven Bouwkamp
Software Engineer II at Datadog
United States
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Top SchoolSteven Bouwkamp is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-critical .NET systems and instrumentation libraries. Currently a Software Engineer II at Datadog, he contributes to the popular dd-trace-dotnet APM client, improving WCF instrumentation, sampling, and sensitive-data obfuscation for real-world telemetry. Previously at Gentex he architected multithreaded .NET Standard libraries that cut controller response times by 70%, led migration efforts to .NET 6, and drove team-wide practices like code review and Agile Kanban. He blends backend systems design, performance tuning, and mentoring, and has hands-on experience across C#, Python, WPF, and machine-vision pipelines. Known for turning messy integration problems into reliable, maintainable libraries, he focuses on measurable impact in manufacturing and observability domains.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
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csharp10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
.NET Client Library for Datadog APM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:923 reviews, 46 commits, 234 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the .NET client library for Datadog APM, focusing on features related to WCF instrumentation, single-span ingestion, and sampling rules. They implemented obfuscation for sensitive data, refined WCF request handling, and improved the performance and functionality of the sampling mechanisms. The user also addressed integration issues within the ServiceStack library, ensuring compatibility and correct instrumentation.
net-librarydotnetprofilingapmtracing
bouwkast/cuMosaic
Dec 2020 - Aug 2024
A CUDA-accelerated Voronoi generator to apply a Mosaic filter on large images to make pretty images.
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 8 months
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