Jason Hand is a seasoned developer advocate focused on DevOps, SRE, and AI, currently shaping developer experiences at Datadog since 2023. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he brings a decade of hands-on leadership across Microsoft, VictorOps, and other cloud-native companies, championing scalable, reliable systems through advocacy, documentation, and community building. As a co-host of The Community Pulse, he helps developers connect, learn, and contribute to tech ecosystems while evangelizing best practices in DevOps and platform reliability. His career trajectory—from IT leadership roles at American Fasteners to platform and technical support leadership at AppDirect and Standing Cloud—demonstrates a knack for translating complex infrastructure concepts into practical, developer-friendly guidance. Jason’s work at Datadog extends his track record of shaping developer relationships and enabling teams to operationalize AI and SRE principles at scale.
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