Vishal Shah
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
United States
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Top SchoolVishal Shah is a Senior Software Engineer with over six years of experience building backend APIs and microservices for large enterprises, currently contributing to observability at Datadog after roles at Twitter and Morgan Stanley. He specializes in Java/Spring ecosystems, event-driven architectures, and scalable data platforms using MongoDB, Elastic, and pub-sub patterns, with a strong focus on test coverage and zero-touch DevOps. His career blends hands-on engineering—designing high-performance schemas, reactive services, and CI/CD pipelines—with product-minded features like analytics dashboards and secure mobile integrations. A lifelong tinkerer who started with Lego Mindstorms, he brings a maker’s curiosity to complex system design and a pragmatic emphasis on code quality. He’s also an engaged mentor who prioritizes team growth and knowledge sharing to raise collective delivery capability.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Github Skills (7)
datadog10
monitoring10
dd10
hugo10
agent10
integrations10
documentation10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
DataDog/integrations-extras
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Contributions:40 reviews, 14 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
DataDog/integrations-core
Sep 2023 - Nov 2024
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Contributions:25 reviews, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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