# Kol Crooks

> SWE @ datadog

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kol

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
I work on realtime time series storage

### Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Index compression

### Cloud Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Leveraged CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Tekton to create a solution for synchronizing docker images to a private image registry, eliminating a previously manual and time consuming task.
• Lead interactions with a client to help integrate a project into their existing infrastructure, improving the security and deployment speeds of their microservices.
• Worked with and deployed projects on a Kubernetes cluster to achieve high scalability and reliability.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Duracell Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bethel, Connecticut, United States
• Designed and led project for an internal tooling website using React and TypeScript that utilized NextJS to automatically generate web pages based on user content.
• Implemented authentication through Azure and implemented authenticated server to server communication through custom generated tokens.
• Created video processing algorithms for measuring information about objects in high-speed video in Python with OpenCV and SciPy to quantify inaccuracies in the measurements.

### Frontend Web Developer @ Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Statistics
The University of British Columbia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kolcrooks
- GitHub: https://github.com/KolCrooks

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Last updated: 2026-03-29