Seth Samuel
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Samuel is a product-focused senior software engineer in New York with over a decade of hands-on experience building developer-facing systems and low-latency user experiences. He has led engineering from early-stage to scale, including serving as CTO at Overtime where he designed Kubernetes infrastructure, a resilient video capture pipeline, and a custom SSR React stack that supported rapid growth to a $500M+ valuation. Now at Datadog, he continues to apply platform and observability thinking to improve developer productivity and system reliability. His background spans full-stack work, tooling and automated testing, iOS features, and mentoring engineering teams across startups and agencies. Seth combines a formal math education and public policy analysis training with practical production expertise—an uncommon blend that helps him translate complex requirements into scalable technical trade-offs. He’s as comfortable shipping product-facing features as he is architecting infrastructure that keeps teams moving fast.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Public Policy Analysis, Master’s Degree Public Policy Analysis at The George Washington UniversityBachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at Reed College
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Github Skills (132)
hugo10
distributed-tracing10
integrations10
profiling10
monitoring10
browser10
apm-agent10
compiler10
observability10
bytebuddy10
static-site-generator10
opentracing10
apm10
java10
go10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sethsamuel/orpheus
May 2024 - Oct 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 75 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
wmed/SDAVAssetExportSession
Jan 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 3 months
audio-videodrop-inaudiocustomizableios
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