Chris Mague is a seasoned Customer Engineer specializing in data management with 15 years of experience building scalable, production-ready systems for customers. Currently at Google and formerly a Principal Field Engineer at Redis, he combines deep operational engineering chops with practical automation and architecture experience from running his own consultancy. He has a proven track record scaling cloud platforms and PaaS—driving availability from 90% to 99.5% and growing deployments tenfold—while keeping systems manageable by small teams. An active back-end contributor to the Datadog integrations community, he has hands-on experience integrating Redis Enterprise metrics and handling complex cluster and licensing edge cases. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a pragmatic focus on long-term maintainability with a background in chemistry, bringing analytical rigor to systems design.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science, Chemistry at University of San Francisco
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:23 reviews, 217 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the development of a Datadog integration for the Redis Enterprise product. Their work involved writing Python code to collect metrics, handle API interactions, and integrate with Datadog's platform. They addressed issues like handling cluster follower nodes, managing event duplication, and adding Active/Active metric collection to the integration. Furthermore, they updated the integration to address cases when there were no databases and worked on fixing license checks.
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