Kirk Kaiser is an evangelism team lead at Datadog, where he focuses on helping developers build more reliable, performant code with APM. Previously, he was the lead backend developer at Triller, scaling the app from zero to millions of users, and handling the traffic from being in the top 100 of iOS and Android stores at the same time. Kirk is also the author of a book teaching Python programming through art instead of print statements, called Make Art with Python.