Summary
Wes Tan is a software engineer II at Datadog in New York City, bringing nine years of full-stack development experience across startups and large tech companies. A Cornell CS graduate, he has built and extended full-stack SPAs, engineered performant GraphQL endpoints, and connected frontend and backend services through GraphQL gateways. His prior internships at Wayfair and Globality taught him to collaborate with PMs, tech leads, and QA to ship features on deadlines while ensuring quality and design consistency. He has hands-on experience across the stack—from React components and Flask microservices to Shopify-based ecommerce themes and mobile-responsive websites—showcasing adaptability to diverse product needs. In addition to core development, he has deployed and evolved API-driven architectures that empower customer-service workflows and data-driven frontends. Based in New York, he thrives in fast-paced environments and is eager to apply his rapid learning and cross-functional collaboration to new challenges at scale.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
English