Stephen Groat
Security Manager at Datadog
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Groat is a Security Manager at Datadog with seven years focused on security engineering and an academic foundation from Virginia Tech in computer engineering. He progressed from hands-on roles—Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm and Senior Security Engineer at Tealium—to leading security at scale for observability infrastructure. His early research produced a patent-pending IPv6 moving target defense and practical first-hop IPv6 security work with industry partners, reflecting deep protocol-level expertise not obvious from titles alone. Based in San Diego, he blends research pedigree with production security operations, emphasizing IPv6 and resilient network design. Outside work he signals a pragmatic, sunny outlook—equally likely to be debugging IPv6 edge cases or enjoying a day outdoors.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Engineering, Master, Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (139)
yaml-processor10
hugo10
devsecops10
vulnerability-scanners10
distributed-tracing10
sbom10
security10
splat10
yq10
vulnerability-detection10
profiling10
monitoring10
misconfiguration10
apm-agent10
golang10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stephengroat-dd/dd-trace-java
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Datadog APM client for Java
Contributions:5 pushes in 8 months
stephengroat-dd/saluki
Jun 2025 - Mar 2026
An experimental toolkit for building telemetry data planes in Rust.
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
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