Kirk Kaiser is an evangelism team lead at Datadog, where he focuses on helping developers build more reliable, performant code with APM. Previously, he was the lead backend developer at Triller, scaling the app from zero to millions of users, and handling the traffic from being in the top 100 of iOS and Android stores at the same time. Kirk is also the author of a book teaching Python programming through art instead of print statements, called Make Art with Python.

Alex Rosenkranz is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Datadog, and lives in Ocean, NJ. Before joining Datadog, he was at Trilogy Education, where he worked as an Instructor and Lead Curriculum Engineer for their full-stack web development boot camps. When he's not working, he is probably listening to one of his many Spotify playlists.

Tammer Galal is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Datadog, and lives in Somerset NJ. He has created curriculum content for programming bootcamps for companies like Trilogy Education Services and 2U. When he's not working, he is probably playing with his dog, watching some anime, or playing some video games!

Rick is an infrastructure and DevOps nerd turned observability advocate at Datadog. He previously focused on network automation at Juniper Networks and Puppet, and he is passionate about making the technology journey for everyone a little easier.

David Needham leads the Training team at Datadog. He has been teaching and speaking in open source communities for about 15 years. When he's not blogging about productivity and faith at davidneedham.me, you can find him streaming on Twitch or playing board games with his family in Champaign, IL.

Ilan Rabinovitch leads product and community teams at Datadog. Prior to joining Datadog, Ilan spent a number of years leading infrastructure and reliability engineering teams at organizations such as Ooyala and Edmunds.com.

Andrew Krug is a Security Engineer specializing in Cloud Security and Identity and Access Management. Krug also works as a Cloud Security consultant and started the ThreatResponse project, a toolkit for Amazon Web Services first responders. Krug has been a speaker at Black Hat USA, DerbyCon, and BSides PDX.

Justin Massey is a Product Manager at Datadog. His background in managing the technical operations of an MSP led him to discover weaknesses in many businesses’ networks and applications. After leaving the MSP, he transitioned into penetration testing and application security to identify vulnerabilities before the attackers. Justin’s current focus is building scalable threat detection products for cloud environments.

Bryan Lokey is an engineering leader with a strong preference for leading Cloud Infrastructure teams and empowering DevOps transformations. His mission is to combine software development principles with modern infrastructure to allow everyone to ship software quickly and securely. He currently leads the Infrastructure, SRE, and Quality engineering teams at Kandji. The teams are comprised of infrastructure experts, SREs, and software developers that create and manage the infrastructure, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability for the Kandji ecosystem.

Scott Berke is the Lead Engineer for search on the Core Services And Capabilities team at Slice. He leads the design and implementation of Slice's search pipeline. The services he helps build and maintain work to index and surface data that allows Slice to match pizza eaters with pizza makers.

Ara Pulido is a Technical Evangelist at Datadog. She has more than 10 years of experience working on infrastructure open-source companies. She is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and was part of the team that created the curriculum for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer certification.

She lives in Malaga, Spain, where she can enjoy three of her favourite free time activities: hiking during spring and autumn; snorkeling, during summer; and going for tapas with friends all year round.

Amber Bennoui is a Product Manager at Datadog, on the Cloud Security Platform. At Threat Stack, she was responsible for the technical product management of the agent and frontend. She has worked across a variety of industries, such as healthcare, education, and media, leveraging experience in cybersecurity and DevOps. Additionally, she co-founded University of Reddit and Hard Times Media. Currently, Amber’s focus is on alleviating alert fatigue through great user experiences.

Borja Burgos is a tech entrepreneur and computer engineer working at the intersection of infrastructure and developer tools.

Brooke Chen is a Product Manager at Datadog. Prior to joining Datadog, Brooke worked as a team lead for reliability engineering at Amazon, responsible for developing AIOps solutions to empower the world's biggest e-commerce platform. She transitioned into Product Management for AWS EC2, building AWS resource recommendations for customers by identifying unique workload patterns. Brooke's current focus includes creating a real-time service catalog that makes it easier for developers to build and operate business-critical services at scale, and helping Watchdog, Datadog's AI engine, to detect and mitigate issues before they start impacting end users.

Tori Teng is a Product Manager at Datadog on the Log Management team. Her focus at Datadog has been to improve search and analytics capabilities and build a seamless user experience for Log Management customers. Her education is in human-computer interaction from the University of Washington. Outside of work, she has also Kickstarted a bird-themed party card game called JailBird.

Alex Cuoci is a product manager at Datadog on the Serverless Monitoring team. His focus at Datadog has been to improve APM observability in serverless applications, and drive increased confidence in serverless technologies through great troubleshooting experiences. Previously, Alex has been heavily involved with hackathon planning, and worked at Square in fraud detection.

John Kendall leads the Container Monitoring product at Datadog. Previously working as a software engineer at Amazon and as a product manager at Cockroach Labs, John has had a front-row seat in the evolution of DevOps with containers. At Datadog, John strives to make containers easy for all.

Omri Sass is a Group Product Manager at Datadog. He works in the APM department and leading the team focused on backend service observability, database monitoring and Watchdog' Datadog's AI/ML engine. Prior to Datadog, Omri led product initiatives at consumer facing media companies, helping to grow reach, engagement and revenue. Currently, Omri is working on providing fastest, most seamless troubleshooting experiences in the market.

Nick Davis is the Senior Product Manager for Cloud Workload Security a part of the Datadog Cloud Security Platform. Nick has over 9 years of experience building Detection & Response products. Previously at Rapid7, he managed InsightIDR and MDR products, focused on advanced detection and response capabilities. Now, Nick works closely with DevOps and Security customers to implement new and effective ways to face the dynamic challenges of cloud security. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Tufts University, where he led the Tufts IEEE chapter and contributed to Metasploit. He has published papers on facial recognition systems and hazardous environment detection using UAV systems. When he’s not at work, you can find him reading up on large scale distributed systems, taking pictures, or skiing.

Steve has been with Charter for over 5 years, focusing on data lake infrastructure, automation, and hybrid environments. Steve is a die-hard Philadelphia sports fan, performs acoustic music at local Denver breweries, and enjoys exploring Colorado with his fiance and their two dogs.

Joseph has been with Charter for over 3 years and worked with large scale distributed systems for over 7 years. He is an avid snowboarder during the winter and spends time climbing, hiking, and off-roading during the summer. He and his girlfriend have a dog named Roo who enjoys going on adventures.