Benson Fung

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Engineering Manager

Datadog — Remote

Dec 2022 — Present

• Lead Demo Engineering, a software development team creating content that showcases what the Datadog platform can do.
• Lead the Community Open Source Engineering team, engaging the open source community around Vector (vectordotdev/vector) and Quickwit (quickwit-oss/quickwit).

Engineering LeadershipOpen SourceRustObservability

II

Director of Data Platform

Brightloom — Remote

Sep 2021 — Aug 2022

• Streamlined software engineering interview process resulting in consistent hiring criteria and high quality of hires.
• Provided non-technical stakeholders with a predictable and easy to understand feature delivery and launch plan.
• Forecasted Engineering budget and controlled infrastructure costs (AWS), saving 10% on a $2.0m budget.

ManagementAWSFinOpsData Platform

III

Principal DevOps Engineer & Manager

Brightloom — Remote

Jan 2020 — Sep 2021

• Evaluated and selected core technologies, balancing build vs. buy. In buy scenarios, tools saved several headcounts in operational overhead.
• Partnered with the InfoSec organization to craft secure SDLC practices integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Led and supported development and operations of Kubernetes-based microservices and data pipelines.

KubernetesDevOpsCI/CDInfoSecTerraform

IV

Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer & Manager

Brightloom — Remote

Jan 2019 — Jan 2020

• Designed and optimized centralized logging and metrics using Datadog for cloud services, reducing SaaS costs and time-to-debug.
• Implemented secure Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware updates for IoT systems (Raspberry Pi SoCs) for the Eatsa Spotlight Pickup System, removing operational friction for customer staff.

DatadogIoTFirmwareAnsibleLinux

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Engineering Manager (Core Platform)

Opower (Acq. by Oracle) — San Francisco, CA

Nov 2014 — Jul 2016

• Led the Core Platform team of 4 engineers supporting 70+ developers in build tooling, deployment processes, and automated cloud operations.

LeadershipDeveloper ToolingInfrastructure

VI

Senior Software Engineer

Opower — San Francisco, CA

Aug 2011 — Jul 2014

• Architected and implemented the authentication/authorization service and API gateway for Opower's microservice ecosystem.
• Developed core framework libraries adopted company-wide to standardize and accelerate microservice deployment and observability.

JavaAPI GatewayMicroservicesOAuth2

VII

Software Engineer

Incisent Technologies — Chicago, IL

Oct 2004 — Dec 2010

• Designed and developed backend services and batch jobs processing statistical data for used car valuations using Java, C#, and Ruby on Rails.
• Designed, implemented, and operated the Data Warehouse using Microsoft SSIS and SSAS, optimizing report query times for real-time dealership lookups.

Ruby on RailsJavaSQL ServerData WarehouseSSIS / SSAS