Zachary Montoya
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Montoya is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building robust backend systems, particularly in .NET and C#. He progressed from Microsoft SDE roles to open-source and production work at Datadog, where he contributed to the popular dd-trace-dotnet APM client—adding CI improvements, MongoDB test support, and a CorrelationIdentifier API for trace/span IDs. He holds dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and has a history of mentoring as a section leader. Known for quickly learning new technologies across internships and projects, he combines strong engineering fundamentals with practical open-source impact on observability tooling.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science & Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
distributed-tracing10
net10
asp-net10
nuget10
dotnet10
ado-net10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
ado10
mongodb-database9
cicd9
mongodb9
lib9
apm8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet
May 2019 - Jan 2023
.NET Client Library for Datadog APM
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 3562 reviews, 503 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zachary's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the .NET client library for Datadog APM. Their work included implementing conditional compilation for MongoDB tests, addressing licensing and documentation issues, and improving Continuous Integration (CI) by adding version range testing for sample applications. The user also refactored code to support a new CorrelationIdentifier API for accessing trace and span IDs.
net-librarydotnetprofilingapmtracing
zamont/core-setup
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:76 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 1 month
dotnetinstallerruntimenet-coreinstaller-packages
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