Kent Shultz
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Shultz is an SRE-turned-technical writer and former software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on reliability, DevOps, and developer-facing content, based in Berkeley, California. He has written for Gremlin on Chaos Engineering and produced docs and community content at Datadog and DigitalOcean, translating complex system behavior into practical guidance. Kent pairs hands-on engineering chops — including contributions to Datadog's integrations-core (adding a twemproxy can_connect service check and tests) — with QA and backend experience from roles at Uber, Cloudflare, and Rackspace. An MS/BS in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa underpins his technical depth. Unusually for an engineer, he also worked as a psychiatric technician, bringing heightened empathy and communication skills to cross-functional collaboration and user-focused documentation.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tulsa
Github Skills (5)
python10
integrations10
testing10
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pod8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:150 commits, 115 PRs, 184 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kent primarily focused on adding a service check for the `twemproxy` integration, implementing a `can_connect` check to verify its functionality. This involved modifying Python code in the `check.py` and `test_twemproxy.py` files to include the service check and associated tests. Additionally, the user contributed to test suites within the `kubernetes` and `tcp_check` integrations by merging changes and updating test configurations to reflect deprecation.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
procore/integrations-core
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Core integrations of the datadog agent
Contributions:104 commits in 3 months
golangdatadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoring
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