# Christopher Blair > Software Engineer at Datadog Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherblair Have a passion for building systems that scale from X to XXX,XXX,XXX. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Datadog Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States Generalist building a SOTA Deep Research AI Security Agent from scratch on top of Datadog’s massive observability stack. ### Software Engineer @ Backbone Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States Anything that needs to get done. ### Senior Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States Building out Capital One's Machine Learning Feature Platform where Capital One's Data Scientists can easily access features company-wide and never have to worry about any infrastructure or computation details. Primarily focused on developing a great user onboarding experience using Node.js and React. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area Drove Technical Replacement of Mainframe service to Golang AWS-Cloud Native service. We drove the mainframe exit using Golang to build out a Batch process that would create a fully Integrated Receivables application for Capital One's Commercial Bank Customers. I developed both the scaffolding and the Accounts extraction. Then I designed and implemented the architecture using AWS Batch, Cloudwatch, S3, and Step Functions. Building Microservices in Golang to support Loan Pricing and Risk Management within the Captial One Commercial Bank. Built an Intelligent Search Microservice that Leveraged Elastic Search in order for Capital One Underwriters to accurately and efficiently calculate risk. Took the service from Development to QA then to Prod, with ownership for the development, deployment, testing, and AWS infrastructure ### Senior Analyst @ Commodity Investing by Students (COINS) Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Blacksburg, Virginia • Assist in investing up to $1M on behalf of the Virginia Tech Foundation for the nation’s only student-run commodity trading group diversified in futures-based ETFs and call options • Make buy and sell trade recommendations using strong technical and fundamental analysis, regression analysis, and critical thinking skills garnered during targeted training and real-world trading experience • Ranked as the Top Analyst (Relative Return) against other 11 commodities in COINS’s portfolio ### Software Engineer Intern @ Capital One Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Richmond, Virginia • Built an automated Error Reporting, Prediction, Detection, and Notification framework for Capital One’s data pipeline. Built two Machine Learning Models to predict errors in Realtime, detect errors automatically, resolve problems, and notify the correct party for triage and rectification. • Deployed into production, it offers both a high-level holistic view through a web interface, as well as, a low-level singular event deep dive using Elastic-Search, Fluent-D, and Kibana stack ### Software Development Intern @ AT&T Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Middletown, NJ • Tackled the challenges of security in a software production environment through the creation of a Web Application Firewall container to both secure development containers and to log attacks to the AT&T Threat Analytics Machine Learning platform. (Python, C, and Docker) • Solution has been integrated into the AT&T security stack, ensuring security of web applications. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Virginia Tech ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christopher-blair-1950ab110 - Website: https://chrisblair2019.github.io/Chris-Blair-Resume-Website/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/christopherblair JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christopherblair/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05