iwasakitsuneo.com (2025-Present)
Co-creator and engineering / creative director for iwasakitsuneo.com, a website that showcases the paintings of the artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002), in collaboration with Dr. Paula Arai.
Stephen Firrincieli
Datadog Edge Computing Observability (2023-2025)
Led the Datadog Edge Computing engineering team, building tools to enable better observability for customers using edge computing PaaS and FaaS providers. Worked directly with Cloudflare, Vercel, and Netlify engineering and product teams to improve the quality of observability and onboarding for our shared customers within Datadog.
Gratitude Squares (2020)
Gratitude Squares is a webapp for gratitude journalling with nice colors and animations.
Datadog Serverless Observability (2019-2023)
Cofounded Datadog Serverless Observability as the product's first engineer. Led development of the Serverless App frontend and backend, developed Datadog's open-source Lambda Libraries, and built backend services that power the observability experience. Designed and implemented a library of reusable components and functions which accelerated development of similar UI experiences as well as improving loading time 10x for our largest-scale customers.
Fantasy Plots (2018)
Fantasy Plots was a website that has pretty visualizations for every player andteam's fantasy football statistics.
Datadog Cloud Observability (2017-2019)
Developed many parts of the platform that powers Datadog's integrations with AWS, GCP, and Azure. My team's services concurrently executed tens of thousands of tasks 24/7 to ingest live customer observability data with minimal latency.
Led development of a reusable component that improved ingestion latency 20x for our largest-scale customers by maximizing the rate of cloud provider API requests across a customer's concurrent tasks.
Clean Google Calendar (2017)
Clean Google Calendar is a Chrome app that redesigns Google Calendar into a more user-friendly interface for use on the desktop. It has about 20k weekly active users and Lifehacker wrote some nice things about it.
The Legionizer (2017)
The Legionizer is a webapp that lets you put your own names and titles into the Legion TV credits and share them with friends. The AV Club wrote a nice article about it but I sadly lost the domain and it has been taken over.
The Flavortown Express (2017)
The Flavortown Express is one of the highest-rated Guy Fieri-inspired Chrome extensions on the market (7 five-star reviews).
RENCI Protein Relationship Visualization (2016-2017)
This protein relationship visualization (dead link) is part of a project I worked on at RENCI with Dr. Charles P. Schmitt to create word2vec models from academic journal articles to analyze and visualize changes over time in the scientific community's understanding of relationship strength between 700 kinases and the tumor-related protein TP53.
UNC COMP 110 Special Software Unit (2016-2017)
While a TA for UNC's COMP 110 course working with Professor Kris Jordan, I developed UI components to power assignments, assisted with development of course assignment code scaffolding, and built custom features for the course website.