William Conti
Software Engineer II at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Conti is a Software Engineer II at Datadog with five years of experience building reliable back-end systems and improving observability tooling. He has contributed to high-profile open-source Datadog APM clients in both PHP and Python, focusing on refactors, test quality, and consistent span tagging that improve tracing fidelity. Comfortable across Python and PHP, he brings a pragmatic QA mindset—fixing integration tests and refining metrics to prevent regressions in production. Based in New York, he combines a data science and business background from Northeastern with hands-on experience across financial and SaaS engineering co-ops, making him adept at turning ambiguous requirements into maintainable solutions.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Northeastern University
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
tracer10
python10
testing10
apm10
php10
test-integration10
trace10
test-unit10
unit-test10
integration-testing10
debug9
debugging9
opentracing9
datadog9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-py
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Datadog Python APM Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 releases, 435 reviews, 187 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:William contributed to the `datadog/dd-trace-py` repository by fixing unit test variable names in the Kombu integration, ensuring accurate tracing of message queue interactions. They also refactored code related to span attributes, changing the `system.pid` tag to `process_id` and renaming the `error.msg` tag to `error.message` for consistency. Additionally, the user added the language tag to the first span within a chunk. These changes indicate the user is focused on improving code quality and consistency in the APM client.
profilingpythonapm-clientapmsecurity
DataDog/dd-trace-php
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Datadog PHP Clients
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 27 commits, 17 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to refactoring and updating tests within the `dd-trace-php` repository, which focuses on Datadog PHP Clients. Their changes involved modifying test files to align with code refactoring and ensuring existing functionality remained consistent. They also updated unit tests to reflect changes in the codebase, specifically around error handling and metric tagging. These modifications indicate a focus on maintaining code quality and ensuring the reliability of the Datadog tracing library for PHP applications.
php-clientapmphptracinglogging
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