# Rahul Kaukuntla > Software at Datadog Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rahulkaukuntla ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer 2 @ Datadog Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Led the redesigning, refactoring, QA-ing, and shipping of a side binary with the Datadog Agent to simplify the user experience for pulling AWS, Azure, etc. backend secrets. Developing a replacement to the Datadog Agent’s existing configuration management layer, to optimize performance with regards to speed, space constraints, reliability, and security. ### Software Engineer @ Datadog Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States Develop and maintain key integrations to the Datadog Agent, including vSphere, Openstack, Cloudera, and Jenkins, using Python, Go, and Java with a strong emphasis on Test-Driven Development. Deploy and manage test environments on AWS and GCP to support integration testing and development. ### Product Management Intern @ Datadog Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States Worked cross-functionally with engineers, designers, etc., to cover feature and design gaps complicating the transition of cloud observability platforms of large enterprises from Microsoft Azure to Datadog. Launched a credential expiration and permissions tracking feature for partnered Azure Key Vaults. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Google Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Investigated performance isolation challenges in a project involving the disaggregation of Local SSDs in Google servers into rack-shared SSD trays. This involved using fio (flexible I/O) scripts in a Linux environment to represent internal customer workloads, and identify gaps in relevant scenarios of noisy neighbor workloads. Strengthened the tracing, playback, and trace visualization infrastructure of shared storage devices, by developing and maintaining tools in Python to help analyze and understand their performance. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Google Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Designed and deployed end-to-end data-plane probes (mostly in the Java 17 runtime) in the Google Cloud Functions framework that will be used to evaluate the maintenance of serverless infrastructure. Uncovered bugs regarding missing coverage in prober validation logic; documented, implemented, and pushed fixes to said bugs that existed in the system for 2+ years. Wrote and tested algorithms in Go that analyze the performance of various cloud infrastructure tools. ### Data Science Intern @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Livermore, California, United States Reformatted a database of radionuclide adsorption data from literature to ensure that the formatting is compatible with a machine learning algorithm that simulates the reaction of radionuclides with solid surfaces. Worked with the following various data analysis tools: Jupyter Notebook, Python (specifically the Pandas library), R, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access. ### Summer Intern @ Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Developed technologies and operational procedures (sterile finger surrogates, cohort scheduling, etc.) which seek to mitigate COVID spread, keeping in mind the lab-heavy and high-contact nature of such R&D facilities. ### High School Intern @ Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Wallingford, Pennsylvania, United States Worked lunches at my high school's student branch; opened accounts for students; learned and marketed Franklin Mint financial services. Developed marketing strategies to attract customers. ### Vice President, Youth Advisory Board @ Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States Led a select group of Franklin Mint interns who meet quarterly to provide headquarters with input on the success/ failure of marketing efforts at the school branches from a student's perspective, as well as brainstorm and implement similar strategies for the future. ### Summer Intern @ Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States Interned in the Corporate Responsibility Department. Responsible for mailings, grant applications, donation requests, etc. Promoted Franklin Mint social events. ### QuarkNet Summer Intern @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Worked the summer building, running, and improving upon a working cosmic ray detector, as well as making parts for a larger detector to be used to determine the inner composition of the Florence Cathedral's world-renown dome. Wrote an image-generation algorithm that increased the efficiency of particle detection by ~16%: ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### High School Diploma Strath Haven High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rahul-kaukuntla --- Source: https://flows.cv/rahulkaukuntla JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rahulkaukuntla/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05