Cliford Shelton
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Littleton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCliford Shelton is an Engineering Manager with 12 years of front-end expertise, currently leading teams at Datadog and formerly guiding UI efforts at Riverbed Technology. He specializes in building polished, high-performance user interfaces using React, TypeScript, SCSS, and GraphQL, with deep roots in HTML/CSS/JavaScript from large enterprise projects at AT&T and Time Warner Cable. Known for translating complex requirements into usable experiences, he blends hands-on implementation with architecture and performance analysis. Cliford’s background includes team leadership, mentoring, and coordinating offshore delivery, which helps him scale both codebases and teams effectively. Based in Littleton, MA, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach informed by long-running, front-end–heavy systems integration work.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (22)
monitoring10
lambda-functions10
hugo10
observability10
distributed-tracing10
aws-lambda-layer10
go10
profiling10
datadog10
serverless-plugin10
logging10
otel10
continuous-integration9
apm-agent9
lambda9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
clifordshelton/toasty
Oct 2013 - Apr 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
DataDog/datadog-cloudformation-macro
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
CloudFormation Macros by Datadog
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
datadog
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