Tyler Edelen is a Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog with a decade of experience building distributed systems and data platforms, currently leading the Cloud Cost product. He combines hands-on expertise in Spark, Scala, Python, Java/Spring Boot and streaming/data stores like Kafka, Cassandra, Postgres, and Redis with a strong track record of moving from senior engineer to manager within the same product org. Prior roles include principal engineering at Conductor and lead engineering at S&P Global, where he delivered scalable data-driven applications and telemetry systems. Based in Richmond, VA and educated at Georgia Tech with an exchange at HKUST, he brings both enterprise and startup sensibilities to complex data challenges. A practical systems thinker, he often bridges architecture, cost optimization, and operational observability to drive measurable product impact.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Contributions:16 PRs, 20 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 3 months
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Tyler Edelen - Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog