Valentin Zakharov
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolValentin Zakharov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining high-performance backend systems and Java agents, currently driving AppSec integrations at Datadog. He combines deep algorithmic and data-processing expertise with hands-on experience shipping security features inside a widely used Java APM agent (contributions to Datadog’s dd-trace-java). Valentin has led product-critical agent development at Sqreen, designed blockchain-based IDaaS and cloud-native architectures for IoT, and delivered multi-cloud management and billing subsystems for MSP platforms. Comfortable across the full lifecycle—from design and prototyping to benchmarking and production hardening—he brings a pragmatic focus on observability, performance, and customer-facing reliability. Based in Ukraine, he pairs a solid academic background in software engineering with a track record of turning security research into production-grade tooling.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Бакалавр, International Business, Бакалавр, International Business at Odessa National 'I.I. Mecnikov' UniversityДиплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Computer Software Engineering, Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Computer Software Engineering at Одесский национальный политехнический университет
Github Skills (5)
javas10
tracer10
trace10
java10
spring-boot9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-java
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Datadog APM client for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:408 reviews, 251 commits, 280 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Valentin appears to be primarily involved in the implementation of AppSec features within the Java agent. Their commits demonstrate work on the core agent functionality, including the integration of an AppSec system, configuration options, and the implementation of client IP address support. They also contributed to benchmarking and event reporting related to AppSec, indicating a focus on security-related backend development.
apm-clientapmbytebuddydatadoghqtracing
uniquid/tank-java
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 5 months
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