Tim Brown
Staff Engineer, Applied AI at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTim Brown is a Staff Engineer focused on Applied AI at Datadog with 13 years of experience building production-grade software and leading cross-functional teams. He progressed through engineering and management roles at Datadog since 2020, bringing hands-on expertise in shipping scalable AI and observability features in a high-traffic SaaS environment. Prior experience at Harry’s and research work at the American National Corpus give him both product-focused engineering chops and a background in language/data research. Based in New York, he blends technical leadership with individual contributor impact, often bridging model-driven initiatives and platform reliability. Notably, his steady internal progression from software engineer to staff-level applied AI engineer signals a knack for turning experimental ML work into operationalized, customer-facing capabilities.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Vassar College
Github Skills (82)
hugo10
security10
compiler10
gatsby10
static-site-generator10
histogram10
gatsbyjs10
documentation10
datadog10
graphql10
react10
bdd9
browser-api9
testing9
test-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/sketches-js
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
TypeScript implementation of the distributed quantile sketch algorithm DDSketch
Contributions:6 releases, 11 reviews, 54 commits in 10 months
typescripthistogramquantilespercentilesrelative-error
brimtown/Modulo
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year
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