Kerlyn Difo

kerlyn angel difo

Learning to build systems and create meaningful projects

Currently at Datadog

Previously at Capital One & Columbia

Kerlyn Difo

About Me

CS student at CUNY Queens College. Interning at Datadog on the Logs Agent team. Heading to Google Cloud this summer. Passionate about backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and developer tooling.

CurrentlySoftware Engineer Intern at Datadog
EducationCUNY Queens College, CS '27
Based inNew York City 🗽

Experience

Resume
  • GoogleSoftware Engineer Intern @ Google Cloud Platform, May - Aug 2026
  • DatadogSoftware Engineer Intern @ Datadog Agent | Log Pipelines, Jan - Apr 2026
  • Capital OneSoftware Engineer Intern @ Debt Collection Services, Jun - Aug 2025
  • Columbia University Irving Medical CenterData Engineer Intern @ Genomic Data Pipelines, Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
  • LifeSci NYCTechnical Campus Ambassador @ Ambassador Program, Sep 2024 - Jun 2025
  • NYC DOHMHData Analyst Intern @ COVID Outreach, Jun - Aug 2022

My Communities

Code For All

Code For All

I lead the newsletter at Queens College's Code For All club with 1,800+ members. We contribute to tech journalism and community engagement writing articles about emerging technologies, organizing workshops, and helping students break into tech.

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ColorStack

ColorStack

Community supporting Black and Latinx computer science students in tech to build careers in software engineering.

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Skills & Technologies

💻Languages

GoPythonJavaTypeScriptC++

☁️Infrastructure

KubernetesAWSDockerBazel

🗄️Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBSQLiteSnowflake

🔧Tools

GitLinuxCI/CDDatadog