Kris Reeves
Unemployed at Stripe
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarKris Reeves is a backend- and automation-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable systems at companies like Stripe and leading engineering at Sigma Bold. He combines hands-on coding, systems administration knowledge, and a pragmatic approach to correctness—favoring robust, secure solutions while recognizing real-world constraints. Kris has a history of vulnerability hunting and responsible disclosure, from early IRC exploits to a UTF-8 decoding flaw in Node's native libraries, reflecting a strong security mindset. An active member of the Node community since v0.6, he contributes code and pull requests rather than just filing issues and champions open source practices. Based in Olympia, Washington, he runs his engineering with a detective’s curiosity: when something is wrong, he digs until it’s fixed.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
402reputation
333kreached
6answers
4questions
Github Skills (60)
observability-data10
fault-tolerant10
stripe9
daemontools9
datadog9
dd8
cli-tools8
python8
agent8
monitoring8
devops8
ruby-client7
browserify6
socket6
nodejs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stripe-archive/datadog-cli-tools
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
CLI tools we find useful for Datadog
Contributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cli-toolsdatadog
stripe-archive/datadog-checks
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Checks for the Datadog Agent that Stripe finds useful.
Contributions:30 commits, 29 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 10 months
datadogstripe
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