Tyler Finethy
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Finethy is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading teams that build developer-facing infrastructure and package management tooling, currently heading the dynamic instrumentation libraries team at Datadog. He blends hands-on engineering with people management, having built and scaled the Posit Package Manager and led RStudio’s Package Manager efforts to improve offline CRAN access and secure package distribution. Tyler’s background spans startups and academia—developing measurement models at McGill and teaching web development—giving him a rare mix of research rigor and practical product delivery. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and maintains active involvement in the R ecosystem, including creating and maintaining an advisory database for CRAN/Bioconductor security vulnerabilities. Pragmatic and technical, he’s known for recruiting and coaching strong engineers while steering cross-organizational product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry and Mathematics at University of New HampshireBachelor of Science (B.S.) Honours Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Honours Physics and Computer Science at McGill University
English
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Github Skills (200)
middleware10
tracer10
apm10
pmm10
programming-language10
annotations10
opentelemetry10
checkout10
headless-browser10
apm-agent10
kubernetes10
lftp10
datadog10
otel10
security10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
tylfin/tylfin.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2022
GitHub Page
Contributions:1 PR, 54 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 2 months
javascript
tylfin/solar
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
WebGL and ThreeJS solar system simulation
Contributions:1 review, 26 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 4 months
webglsolarjavascriptwebgl2simulation
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