Datadog Ambassadors are technical experts and community leaders who share their knowledge, helping people build better applications infrastructure, and welcoming others to join the conversation. They love to learn new things and new technologies, solve problems, and share their solutions with the world. As community role models, you’ll find Datadog Ambassadors writing technical blog posts, sharing video walkthroughs, and contributing to open source code.
Our Ambassadors
Mike Stemle
Arc XP
Mike Stemle brings 25 years of experience to his role as a software professional, along with 27 years of active involvement in the open-source community. He specializes in troubleshooting, integrating different technologies, and spreading a healthy love of legacy code. Beyond his professional pursuits, his life is enriched by his wife, Krista, and their three sons.
Among Mike’s contributions to the Datadog community, he has authored the Datadog Service Catalog Metadata Provider custom GitHub Action, which is freely available in the GitHub Marketplace.
Benjamen Pyle
Pyle Cloud Technologies
Benjamen is a genuine and resourceful technology executive with over 20 years of hands-on software development, team building, and leadership experience spanning the gamut from startups to established enterprises. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Pyle Cloud Technologies, an AWS-focused cloud consultancy that specializes in cloud strategy, architecture, training, and cost optimization. He works with customers large and small, using a pragmatic approach to tailor solutions for purely serverless and cloud hybrid operations. His passion is enabling technology teams to be their best by bridging modern technical design and outstanding business problem-solving. He’s also an AWS Community Builder recognized for his deep expertise in event-driven architecture, serverless computing, and cloud-native and containerized solutions. When Benjamen doesn’t have his head in the clouds, he’s either playing golf with his wife and two boys or outside with their 12 paws.
Suraj Tikoo
Accenture
Suraj is a seasoned cloud consultant with specialized expertise in monitoring, particularly within the Datadog domain. His role involves assisting businesses in optimizing performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, all while empowering them to extract valuable insights from their data.
Within the Datadog community, Suraj has made notable contributions. He’s developed a sample Java Spring Boot application tailored for use with Datadog APM and authored technical pieces on Datadog for the Towards AWS blog. Learn more here:
Furthermore, he’s curated a comprehensive Datadog certification course available on the Udemy platform. This course has already proven immensely beneficial, with numerous users successfully certifying themselves. For those aiming to obtain Datadog certification, Suraj’s course provides a valuable resource.
I am Divya Gupta Arora, currently serving as an Engineering Manager at Expedia Group. I have the privilege of leading a highly skilled and dedicated team focused on leveraging technology to enhance the travel experience. My expertise spans a wide array of technologies, including Kotlin, Java, GraphQL, AWS, Datadog, Angular, Git, and microservices. In addition to my technical proficiency, I actively contribute to architectural design, people management, and product development, further enriching my skill set. With over a decade of industry experience, I have had the opportunity to work across various domains, including hospitality, travel tech, education, real estate, and finance. I take pride in my contributions to the field of Swarm Intelligence, with around 10 research papers published in renowned international journals. Additionally, I am an avid writer, with several blogs that explore emerging trends and share valuable insights. You can find me engaging actively on Medium and LinkedIn, where I eagerly welcome connections and conversations with fellow professionals. Beyond my professional pursuits, I have a deep-rooted passion for travel, which aligns perfectly with my role. On a personal note, I am also a professionally trained classical dancer, combining my love for the arts with my technical expertise.
Willian has always found a home on the “Ops” side, serving in roles such as SysAdmin, DevOps, and SRE. Currently, he dedicates his efforts to helping engineers use Datadog to better diagnose and resolve issues within complex environments.
As a platform architect, Martin primarily supports workloads performing batch compute, recommendation pipelines, and other functions for data science. Prior to his current role, he was a Technical Lead at Twilio and the CTO of iCracked, a YC- & a16z-backed venture. Martin is originally from the UK and currently resides in Austin after an eight-year stint in San Francisco. Outside of work, he enjoys skydiving, traveling, cooking, guitar, and reverse engineering.
With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Juliano is a passionate tech leader and coder who thrives on complex project management and high-performance delivery. He has led teams in various locations worldwide, combining leadership with hands-on coding skills in Java, .Net C#, Go, and Node.js. He has extensive experience in cloud-based environments, utilizing AWS, GCP and Azure.
As a Technical Manager on the Cloud and Platform team at Mercado Libre, Juliano is part of the team responsible for the Mercado Libre Internal Developer Platform - FURY, its services, and resources used by over 15,000 developers. He helps to assemble and mentor a team of platform engineers and full cycle developers, working with NERDs passionate about what they do. He also gets involved with the community at events, helping to build a people-focused ecosystem and a terrific work environment.
Ashley Parks
Toyota Connected
Ashley is a senior devops engineer and innovator with a passion for problem solving and stability. With almost 6 years of experience at Toyota Connected North America, she has played a crucial role in the infrastructure for their Telematics Service Platform. Known for her expertise in Datadog’s platform, Ashley is always open to sharing insights and best practices, and has spoken at DASH twice.
Ashley also enjoys enriching her community by involvement with the Women in Tech program at Toyota Connected and mentoring a high school FIRST Robotics team. Outside of engineering, she enjoys dancing, crochet and reading.
Apostolis Apostolidis
Flipdish
Toli is a Software Engineering Practitioner who believes that learning and working together are catalysts for high-performing software-first teams who care about how their software serves their customers.
Toli’s career began in the field of maths and physics, which led him into the world of software engineering, where he spent his formative first few years learning the craft while writing algorithms for solving large-scale “travelling-sales-person” problems across the globe. He has since worked with Brent from The Phoenix Project for a B2B energy company, the initial core team at cinch to build the fastest-growing unicorn in UK startup history, while he is currently helping Flipdish build the next generation of restaurant tech.
Throughout this journey, Toli fell in love with DevOps, Observability and Team Topologies, while he discovered a new passion for serverless, event-driven socio-technical architectural paradigms and product thinking.
Changhyeon Yoon
MIRI D.I.H
Changhyeon Yoon works in Frontend and DevOps. He uses React.js and Flutter.
He is interested in UI/UX monitoring, CI/CD optimization, and error tracking to provide stable and pleasant services to users.
He is active in the AWS local community and is also a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador.
Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and loves learning and sharing new technologies.
Santiago Gómez Sáez
Volkswagen Group
Santiago enables teams in the Volkswagen Group to migrate workloads to Cloud environments as part of digitalization. As a Principal Cloud Architect, he is responsible for the cloud migration strategy, develops standards, and fosters the adoption of Datadog world-wide. His overarching objective is to develop architectures that optimize through standardization and automation the performance of engineering teams across the group.
In the scope of Datadog, his team has standardized the rollout and usage of Datadog for different types of applications running in AWS. Moreover, he built a governance framework that enforces compliance for rolling out a multi-org Datadog setup in the Volkswagen Group. Outside of work, he is passionate about traveling and a professional sailing skipper.
Carles Javierre
Independent Consultant
I’m a young entrepreneur that has been in the IT industry for over 10 years. I help businesses improve their infrastructure: migrating them to the cloud, improving their cybersecurity posture and providing them with the highest level of observability available on the market. With Datadog, I guide teams in the right path to tidy up the performance of their services, reducing costs, improving reliability, their overall user experience as well as finding logical reasons to what seemed to be impossible problems.
I’ve recently started a technical blog that gives insights into technical challenges that I’ve come upon and how different tools can help you tackle them. For example:
The only downside is that my customers have to withstand my dad jokes (and I’m not a dad yet…). Their security systems didn’t sniff that packet!
Oh! And I’ve always been a dog person (although now I also have two cats).
Ichiro Kano
TOSHIBA Digital Solutions
Ichiro works at Toshiba Digital Solutions and leads the Cloud Managed Services team who implement architecture and operate multi and hybrid clouds as the IT platform for the solutsions provided by Toshiba Group. The challenges of operating across 8 clouds and on-premise environments are managed by one team forming an integrated security and operations center and using Datadog as its core observability layer. Outside of work, he writes technical articles featured on popular Japanese IT engineering blogs.
Ibukun Itimi
Lyft
Ibukun is an Engineering Manager with experience across several Platform Engineering domains. She has a passion for building high performing teams and advocating for a culture of building platform products that improve developer experience and productivity.
Ibukun’s dedication to knowledge sharing is evident through her role as a three-time LinkedIn course author, where she has crafted comprehensive courses covering best practices in Observability, empowering professionals to optimize their systems effectively.
Beyond her professional pursuits, Ibukun is deeply committed to nurturing talent and fostering growth within the tech community through her platform ‘Come Tech With Us’. Through coaching, mentorship and community engagement, she endeavors to empower individuals to thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of technology.
I’m Senior Staff Reliability engineer at Zendesk. My team is responsible for capacity management, infrastructure rightsizing, building sophisticated observability, running performance workshops and ensuring large complex system is up and running reliably and cost efficiently.
My team plays key role in incidents response to performance and capacity related outages. That would not be possible without Datadog. With full confidence I can say that Datadog is in the core of our observability stack. My team runs observability workshops and keeps Datadog integration up to date. It helps us to proactively detect and prevent customer impact but when it does happen we spend not more than 15 seconds to figure out why. Datadog Logs, APM, metrics are all interconnected to facilitate troubleshooting within seconds, neither minuter nor hours. I also contribute to Zendesk Engineering and Nginx blogs, publish with USENIX Login magazine and present Zendesk at several tech conferences and online webinars.
Kelly Bettendorf
Stavvy
As a Staff Security Engineer, Kelly is dedicated to developing practical, effective security programs and solutions. His areas of expertise include detection engineering, cloud security, and enhancing the value of monitoring across organizations. He leads a range of key security initiatives, including detection-as-code, cloud infrastructure security, SIEM engineering, security automation, incident response, and compliance enablement. In 2024, Kelly shared his approach to detection-as-code at DASH, highlighting ways teams can bring structure and scale to their detection engineering efforts using a crawl, walk, run approach. Driven by a passion for continuous learning and problem solving, Kelly approaches his work with high energy and a relentlessly curious mindset. He is committed to making a meaningful impact, whether by delivering complex technical solutions or by aligning security efforts with organizational objectives and team needs. Outside of work, Kelly enjoys exploring technical challenges in his home lab. He is also an active member of the Datadog Slack community, answering questions and sharing ideas.
Rebecca Cottignies
AssessFirst
After a career change, my passion for cybersecurity became my vocation. Today, as Cybersecurity Engineer at AssessFirst, I work on Purple Team, SOC, Pentest and ISO 27001 projects. My role is to implement robust and appropriate security solutions, while ensuring process compliance to guarantee a secure digital environment. I’m particularly committed to cybersecurity governance and awareness-raising, with the aim of making this complex field accessible to everyone. I like to popularize technical concepts so that they can be understood and applied in a simple, concrete way by everyone. This approach is at the heart of my ISO 27001 certification work, where I steer governance and ensure that the highest standards are met. As a member of CESIN, I’m also passionate about sharing knowledge and disseminating best practices, thereby contributing to the development of the cybersecurity community.
Shogo Hasunuma
iret, inc.
Shogo Hasunuma is based in Japan and serves as the head of the Managed Service Provider (MSP) Section at iret, inc. He joined the company in 2015 with no prior experience in IT engineering and has steadily built his career—from an entry-level monitoring operator to roles in infrastructure design and implementation—before being appointed as a team leader in 2019. Currently, he is committed to enhancing managed services by advancing incident response automation, adopting generative AI, and implementing comprehensive observability strategies centered around Datadog. He also supports end users in fostering autonomous DevOps practices by offering guidance on the effective utilization of Datadog.
YoungJin Jung
LG UPlus
Youngjin is a DevOps Engineer driving infrastructure modernization at a leading telecommunications company. He specializes in solving complex challenges that emerge in enterprise-scale environments, focusing on building scalable, resilient systems through modern DevOps practices. With a strong emphasis on observability and performance tuning, he utilizes Datadog to instrument services, analyze performance metrics, and proactively improve system reliability and the overall user experience. He is an active AWS Community Builder, contributing to the growth of cloud-native practices within the community, and also serves as a HashiCorp Ambassador, advocating for infrastructure as code and automation across large-scale deployments.
Yubin Kim
Karrot
Yubin Kim is a Site Reliability Engineer who focuses on building resilient systems that internal developers can trust and rely on. She works on designing and operating infrastructure that supports scalability, observability, and fault tolerance in production environments. She’s particularly interested in improving service reliability through comprehensive monitoring, streamlined CI/CD pipelines, and practical incident tracking. Her approach blends pragmatic engineering with a user-first mindset to deliver consistent and dependable experiences. Beyond her day-to-day responsibilities, Yubin Kim is an active member of several technical communities. She enjoys engaging in thoughtful technical discussions, learning from others, and sharing her own insights to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
Michael Levan
Independent Consultant
Michael Levan translates technical complexity into practical value. He is a seasoned engineer, consultant, trainer, and content creator in the Kubernetes and Platform Engineering space who spends his time working with startups and enterprises around the globe. Michael is also a Microsoft MVP, 4x published author, podcast host, international public speaker, CNCF Ambassador, and was part of the Kubernetes v1.28 and v1.31 Release Team.
Jon Lindeheim
Axis Communications
Jon Lindeheim is an Engineering Manager at Axis Communications, where he leads the team responsible for the core services of Axis Cloud Connect—an open, hybrid cloud platform designed to deliver scalable and secure cloud capabilities across Axis ecosystem. With a background as a Solution Architect, Jon combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision to build modern, cloud-native platforms. A passionate DevOps advocate, Jon focuses on fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement. Tools like Datadog play a key role in supporting that vision—providing the visibility needed to build and operate reliable systems at scale. He has shared his experiences at conferences such as DASH 2024 and AWS Summits, covering topics like platform engineering, cloud transformation, and DevOps practices in real-world settings.
Logan Rohloff
RapDev
Logan is a cloud and observability lead at RapDev, a Datadog Premier Partner. With experience spanning cloud automation, network engineering, and system administration, Logan plays a key role in helping organizations implement and optimize their observability strategies in the most automated and scalable fashion possible. Through this work he’s deployed nearly every Datadog product, and has written more than a dozen custom Datadog integrations. He also aided in the development of an open-source utility that allows the agent to retrieve and decrypt secrets from various secret backends such as AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, etc., which was donated to Datadog by RapDev in the fall of 2024. On RapDev’s website you can find his written work as well as the webinars he’s taken part in, with topics including incident resolution with event correlation, custom integrations, and more. Logan also spoke at DASH in 2024, covering ways to use the tool Vector to accelerate and enhance Datadog deployments. Outside of work and technology, Logan enjoys traveling with his wife, spending time with their 2 dogs, and snowboarding.
Nilton Kazuyuki Ueda
Deloitte
Nilton Kazuyuki Ueda is a Senior Data Executive in Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Machine Learning and Generative AI, with over a decade of experience in multinational and global companies, leading large-scale corporate strategic initiatives.
Code of Conduct
The following guidelines foster a welcoming, inclusive culture and help us define our values. This code of conduct applies to the actions and communications of all members of the program, whether acting in capacity as a Datadog Ambassador or not.
Be Inclusive and Respectful
Treat everyone with respect
Be open and welcoming to people of all backgrounds and skill levels
Help new community members feel welcome
Act as a Role Model
Be professional, humble, and kind
Encourage behavior that is helpful and gracious
Never disparage, insult, or otherwise engage in rude behavior
Encourage Participation
Work to create a comfortable environment where everyone can contribute
Ask questions and support others when they do the same
Share knowledge freely and celebrate those that do the same
Be an Advocate for Datadog
Be enthusiastic about what Datadog is doing
Use Datadog products and share what you learn
Browse FAQs
How are individuals selected to be Datadog Ambassadors?
Datadog Ambassadors are selected from nominations submitted by Datadog employees and current Datadog Ambassadors. Nominees are evaluated based on their contributions to the community by a panel, and those who best exemplify our values are invited to participate. After the evaluation process, we may also reach out to some nominees that were not selected in order to help prepare them for next year’s program.
How long does membership in the program last, and what is expected of Datadog Ambassadors?
Membership is evaluated on a yearly basis. Datadog Ambassadors are expected to remain active in the community throughout their tenure, sharing knowledge and contributing in the same fashion that led to their nomination. Current members will be invited to reapply at the end of each year’s program.
What are the benefits?
Datadog Ambassadors receive a number of exclusive benefits in recognition of their outstanding contributions and to further support their community engagement efforts. These benefits include free Datadog certification exams, limited-edition swag, tickets and travel to DASH, professional profiles, opportunities to collaborate with the Datadog team, and much more to come.
Who is the Datadog Ambassadors program open to?
The program is open to everyone worldwide, regardless of location, background, or affiliation. Diversity and inclusion are core parts of the program. Our goal is to recognize individuals from a variety of communities and backgrounds.
Can I self-nominate to be a Datadog Ambassador?
Currently the program is not open to applications, and nominations must come from Datadog employees or current Datadog Ambassadors. If you are interested in joining, the best way is to start contributing and sharing your knowledge about Datadog.
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