Buck Heroux

Datadog

Senior Engineering Manager • 2019 — 2026

• Scaled a diverse, multi-tiered engineering organization from scratch to 20+ headcount
• Launched GPU Monitoring & Storage Management
• Owned and operated 1M+ QPS platforms with sub 50ms P99 Latency
• Grew AWS Integrations business 5x to $450M ARR

The Infatuation & Zagat

CTO • 2016 — 2019

• Built engineering team from scratch
• Increased MAU 600% over tenure
• Acquired Zagat from Google
• Drove vision & architecture for UGC platform under Zagat brand

Palantir

Forward Deployed Engineer • 2014 — 2016

• Combatted cyber crime at a Fortune 50 retailer
• Built analysis framework on top of Spark for 5+ TB/day data feeds
• Mentored several junior engineers into successful careers
• Tech lead
• All things geo

Microsoft, Bing Maps

Software Development Engineer • 2012 — 2014

• Streetside 3D team
• Led real-time fleet telemetry project for image collection

Bing Maps was purchased by Uber in 2015

Next Big Sound

Software Engineer • 2011 — 2012

• A&R research tool using models inspired by Physics
• Overall artist ranking and scoring
• Internal tools

Next Big Sound was acquired by Pandora in 2015

Qualcomm

Hardware Engineer Intern • Summer, 2010

Worked on various hardware to establish an ETM (Embedded Trace Macrocell) debugging environment

Georgia Institute of Technology

Machine Learning, Computer Science, M.S. • 2017 — 2021

University of Colorado

Computer Science, B.S. • 2007 — 2011

Unwinding Uber's Most Efficient Service

Teardown of Uber's most efficient service by analyzing their geofencing algorithm and presenting more efficient alternatives.

Perking

Track credit card perks. ML transactions classifier. Agentic development.

GoBERT

Go bindings for BERT

Bashoto

Bashoto to build real-time, local apps.

Diglet

Simple tools for geospatial workflows

Monster Ball Icon Pack

Android app with 500k Downloads & 4.1 Rating