Usama Saqib
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolUsama Saqib is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 8 years of experience building cloud-native observability and endpoint security tooling. Currently at Datadog, he focuses on extending eBPF capabilities and system-level monitoring in the Datadog Agent, contributing notable enhancements like Azure public IP querying, eBPF buffer optimizations, and CI improvements for Amazon Linux 2. His background leading R&D on a Linux endpoint security agent at TRAPMINE gives him practical depth across kernel-level instrumentation and backend systems. A Bilkent University computer engineering graduate, he blends low-level systems work with production-grade engineering practices and a track record of impactful open-source contributions to a widely used repo.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Computer Engineering at Bilkent University
Github Skills (12)
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
ebpf10
system-monitoring9
cloud-infrastructure9
observability8
monitoring8
cicd8
trace7
tracer7
distributed-tracing6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:649 reviews, 412 commits, 288 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Usama's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Datadog Agent's capabilities, specifically concerning cloud provider integration and system-level monitoring. They added support for querying the public IP address of Azure instances, including testing and code modifications. The user also refactored the system-probe module, incorporating features like namespaced routers for module endpoints and optimizing buffer handling within the eBPF code for improved performance. Furthermore, they contributed to the CI setup with testing environments for Amazon Linux 2.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
usamasaqib/kernel-build
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:48 pushes in 8 months
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