Sean O'Connor
Special guest
Sean O'Connor is an engineering leader with experience in building, growing, and managing teams that build great products.
Currently, he is an Engineering Director at Datadog.
Outside of work you can often find him tinkering with various maker things (woodworking, 3D printing, electronics, etc) and trying to keep his ridiculous dog out of trouble.
Sean O'Connor has been a guest on 1 episode.
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490: Datadog with Sean O'Connor
August 31st, 2023 | Season 11 | 45 mins 55 secs
Sean O'Connor is the Director of Engineering at Datadog. Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.
Sean discusses his transition from an individual contributor to management and shares why he chose Datadog, emphasizing the appeal of high-scale problems and the real business nature of the company. They delve into the importance of performance management and observability and cover the cultural and technical challenges Sean faces in managing a diverse, geographically spread team, and discuss the transition at Datadog from a decentralized model to more centralized platforms, the corresponding changes in both technical strategies and people management, and what excites him about Datadog's future, including the integration of security offerings into developers' daily experiences, and the evolution of Kubernetes and internal build and release tooling.