IT, security and GRC
10 Datadog experts
These ten site reliability, observability and platform professionals have worked with Datadog inside their own organizations rather than at Datadog. A reader can learn how in-house teams build dashboards and alerts, run Datadog alongside other monitoring tools, and approach observability programs and cost control.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adso Castro
LinkedInExperience: Site Reliability Engineer · Itaú Unibanco
Site Reliability Engineer at Itaú Unibanco since 2022, with a profile headline of Observability Engineer @ Itaú Unibanco that lists Datadog certification. The profile describes a senior platform engineer specialized in observability, with deep expertise in Datadog and OpenTelemetry. Earlier he was a Site Reliability Engineer at PicPay (2019–2022) and at Hash (2022).
Diego Miranda
LinkedInExperience: Gestão de Incidentes Críticos Operações de TI Observabilidade · Americanas S.A.
Former Gestão de Incidentes Críticos Operações de TI Observabilidade (critical incident management, IT operations and observability) at Americanas S.A. (2021–2026), after serving there as Analista de TI SRE (Operação de TI) NOC (2018–2021). The profile describes 10+ years supporting production environments, with experience in major incident management, observability, Datadog and root cause analysis.
Harini Reddy
LinkedInExperience: Site Reliability Engineer · Fidelity Investments
Site Reliability Engineer at Fidelity Investments since April 2026, after SRE roles at J.P. Morgan (2024–2026) and FedEx Dataworks (2021–2024). The profile describes a senior DevOps and SRE engineer who builds large-scale AWS infrastructure and is skilled in implementing observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and Dynatrace.
João Victor
LinkedInExperience: Observability · Itaú Unibanco
Listed in an Observability role at Itaú Unibanco since December 2022. The profile lists observability tools including AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana and DataDog, along with microservices and modernization work on Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS and OpenShift, and cloud work on AWS and Azure.
Manikandan P
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Manager · Albertsons Companies India
Engineering Manager at Albertsons Companies India since December 2025. The profile describes 16+ years in site reliability engineering and experience leading observability transformations using Datadog, Grafana and Prometheus. Earlier roles include Manager Consulting Services at Hitachi Digital Services (2023–2025) and Solution Architect at Cognizant (2016–2023).
Peer Aaqib
LinkedInExperience: Lead System Engineer · Fidelity Investments
Lead System Engineer at Fidelity Investments since 2024, a role the profile ties to SRE observability work with Datadog, CatchPoint, Kibana, Prometheus and Grafana. He was also Associate System Engineer (2018–2019) and System Engineer (2020–2023) at Fidelity Investments.
Thais Chagas
LinkedInExperience: Site Reliability Engineer PL · Itaú Unibanco
Site Reliability Engineer PL at Itaú Unibanco since April 2026, and a Site Reliability Engineer there since 2023. The profile says the role covers availability, stability and performance of production applications, Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS, and monitoring and observability with Datadog, including creating dashboards and alerts. Earlier she was Analista de Engenharia de TI at Itaú Unibanco (2021–2023).
Vignesh Venkatesan
LinkedInExperience: Site Reliability Engineer 2(Observability & Monitoring) · Comcast
Site Reliability Engineer 2(Observability & Monitoring) at Comcast since February 2025; the profile headline reads SRE Monitoring Analyst | Datadog & OP5 Admin and also mentions OpenTelemetry and open-source stack migration. Before Comcast he held system engineer roles at Tata Consultancy Services from 2022 to 2025.
Vijaya Saradhi Reddy N.
LinkedInExperience: Site Reliability Engineer · The Hartford
Site Reliability Engineer at The Hartford since July 2025, after serving as Site Reliability Engineer at AAA (2024–2025) and DevOps Engineer at Razorpay (2021–2024). The profile describes 7+ years improving observability, reliability and CI/CD automation across AWS environments, with experience in Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and RUM, and success reducing MTTR.
Vivek Rathi
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Manager (Datadog, AI, Data, Observability, Cost Optimization) · Wayfair
Senior Engineering Manager (Datadog, AI, Data, Observability, Cost Optimization) at Wayfair since June 2026, a role whose title names Datadog alongside observability and cost optimization. Before that he held data and SRE roles at Target, including Lead - Data SRE (2022–2023) and Lead Engineer (Manage LIS Data, SRE, AI,Data) (2025–2026), and worked at Walmart Global Tech (2023–2025).
Choose the right perspective
For rollout and tooling decisions, favor people whose notes describe leading observability programs or migrations, and for day-to-day alerting and dashboard questions, favor hands-on site reliability engineers. Check role dates so that questions about current Datadog features go to someone using it now.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you decide what to instrument first in Datadog, and how did you keep dashboards and alerts from sprawling?
- 02How do you manage Datadog costs as hosts, logs and custom metrics grow?
- 03How did you run Datadog alongside or instead of tools like Prometheus, Grafana or Splunk, and what drove that choice?
About this directory
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