Datadog Ambassadors

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.

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:

• Datadog API Key Rotation on AWS
• Running Datadog as a SideCar on AWS ECS Fargate
• Datadog Gameday on GitHub

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.

• Datadog Fundamental Practice Exam
• Datadog Logging Practice Exam

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.

You can read more on some of my contributions:

• My 10 months as a Datadog Ambassador
• Datadog diaries seven months of innovation and community
• From Searching in Haystacks to Monitoring with Datadog: Lessons Learned in Application Performance

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.

In line with his mission, Willian is the co-founder of Appoena, a consultancy in Brazil specializing in observability. Through Appoena, he is also the co-instructor of an online course for mastering observability with Datadog.

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.

Among his contributions to the Datadog community, Martin has helped create and deliver an on-demand webinar that showed how his company Stitch Fix optimized cloud costs with the help of Datadog.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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:

• How Datadog helps your company reduce cloud costs, improve performance and user experience with APM + Profiler

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).

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.

You can check out her course on LinkedIn Learning DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability

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.