Henry F. Chapman

Sales Engineer @ Datadog

My work has spanned violent crime analysis in New York, social trends for Fortune 500 brands, and infrastructure observability for startups and growing teams. Based in Denver, CO.

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Henry Chapman
Henry Chapman presenting narcotics findings at the 2022 IACA Conference
2022 International Association of Crime Analysts Conference

About

Sales Engineer at Datadog, where I help startups get more from their observability stack. Before that, three years at Infegy building social listening tools and influencing $7.5M in closed-won revenue. Earlier, I analyzed homicide cases for prosecutors in New York and Kansas City, drove 90% narcotics felony reform, and secured the DOJ grant that launched Missouri's first local Crime Strategies Unit.

166% Quota Attainment, Q3 2026
94% Technical Win Rate
$7.5M Revenue Influenced
90% Narcotics Cases Reduced
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Resume

Sales engineering, data analysis, and technical work across observability, criminal intelligence, and social media analytics.

Experience

Datadog Aug 2025 – Present
Sales Engineer II, Commercial Jul 2026 – Present
  • Promoted off-cycle after 11 months, ahead of Datadog's standard SE promotion timeline.
  • 166% of Q3 2026 quota attainment in first quarter as Sales Engineer II.
Sales Engineer, Commercial Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
  • H1 2026 Win Hero Award, recognizing the most Sales Engineering wins in Commercial West with 19 new logos.
  • 154% of H1 2026 quota attainment; closed the 3rd-largest deal in Commercial West (Q1 2026).
  • Closed first deal before completing the standard ramp period.
  • Achieved a 94% technical win rate across 80 pre-sales evaluations and POC deployments.
Infegy May 2022 – Aug 2025
Solutions & Research Engineer Jul 2024 – Aug 2025
  • Influenced $12.4M in pipeline and $7.5M closed-won revenue across pre-sales engineering and content strategy.
  • Grew Infegy API business to 10% of annual revenue, including the three largest deals in company history.
  • Launched Insights by Infegy, writing 106 insight briefs on brand, cultural, and political trends in social media.
  • Developed and presented 10 webinars on social listening methodology and API capabilities.
  • Named one of Social Intelligence Lab's four 2025 Tech Pioneers for innovation in social listening.
Lead Analyst May 2022 – Jul 2024
  • Translated social data into compelling brand narratives for clients across agencies and brands.
  • Built data-driven storytelling frameworks that distilled complex insights for non-technical stakeholders.
Penn Engineering Dec 2021 – May 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Led seminars and office hours for 500 students in Introduction to Computer Systems (CIT 593).
Jackson County Prosecutor's Office Nov 2019 – May 2022
Data Analyst, Crime Strategies Unit
Career Sabbatical Mar 2019 – Oct 2019
Pacific Crest Trail & Road Trip
New York County District Attorney's Office Jun 2016 – Mar 2019
Consultant Aug 2018 – Mar 2019
Technology Analyst Mar 2017 – Aug 2018
  • Directed a year-long cyber-stalking investigation involving 100 fake accounts that ended in a conviction.
  • Testified in multiple homicide and violent felony trials, including gang-involved homicides and domestic violence cases.
  • Taught classes on case analysis and presentation.
Trial Preparation Assistant Jun 2016 – Mar 2017
  • Compiled, analyzed, and redacted case documents for discovery compliance across homicide and violent felony cases.
  • Promoted to Technology Analyst after demonstrating strong technical aptitude in digital evidence and courtroom systems.
Yale University Dec 2012 – May 2016
Student Technology Coordinator Dec 2014 – May 2016
  • Led an eight-person team that provided technical support to 800 students, faculty, and staff.
Student Technician Dec 2012 – Dec 2014
  • Provided technical support to students, faculty, and staff; diagnosed and repaired Apple and Windows computers.
Research Assistant Sep 2013 – Dec 2013
  • Compiled battlefield casualty and desertion records across historical military units; data published in Jason Lyall's Divided Armies (Princeton University Press, 2020), a study of ethnic fractionalization and military effectiveness.
Philmont Scout Ranch May 2015 – Aug 2015
Ranger
  • Led 12 backpacking treks for 60 teenagers through the Sangre de Cristo mountains.
  • Taught first aid, land navigation, sustainable land use, and ecology.
  • Member of New Mexico's second-largest search and rescue team.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency May 2014 – Jul 2014
Student Intern
  • Worked in technology acquisition at the NGA's Springfield, Virginia headquarters.
  • Obtained TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.

Education

University of Pennsylvania Jan 2020 – May 2024
Master's in Applied Computer Science (MCIT)
  • Completed part-time while working full-time.
  • Relevant coursework: Algorithms & Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Computer & Network Security.
Yale University Sep 2012 – Jun 2016
B.A. in Global Affairs (International Security)
  • Capstone on international arms trafficking in Latin America.
  • Hertog War Studies Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War; participated in workshops with Generals McChrystal, Petraeus, and Allen.
  • Activities: Yale Historical Society, TBIYTB, Yale Precision Marching Band, Yale Sexual Literacy Forum, Yale Reach Out, Pierson College, New Haven Reads.

Technical Skills

Languages & Analysis
Python JavaScript Pandas NumPy Scikit-learn Statistical Modeling Machine Learning
Data & Visualization
ArcGIS Pro QGIS Plotly Dash REST APIs ETL Data Warehousing Git
Observability & Security
Infrastructure Monitoring APM Distributed Tracing Log Management Network Analysis LLM Observability AWS

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Issued Jan 2026 · Expires Jan 2029
Datadog Certified: Fundamentals Issued Nov 2025 · Expires Nov 2028
Datadog Certified: APM & Distributed Tracing Fundamentals Issued 2025
Datadog Certified: Log Management Fundamentals Issued 2025

Memberships

National Eagle Scout Association Lifetime Member · Eagle Scout, 2008
Philmont Staff Association Alumni Member
International Association of Crime Analysts Past Member · Featured speaker, 2022 annual conference
Colorado Mountain Club Member · Alpine Climbing School graduate, 2025
American Alpine Club Member
Social Intelligence Lab Insider 50 · Named a 2025 Tech Pioneer in social listening
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Social Intelligence

Research, analysis, and thought leadership in social media trends, data collection techniques, and industry insights.

Insight Briefs

During three years at Infegy, I published over 100 insight briefs on brand, cultural, and political trends in social media. A sample of recent work is below.

Southwest Airlines Analysis
March 20, 2025

Southwest Airlines Faces Backlash Over Checked Bag Policy

How social listening reveals brand risks in 2025 and the impact of policy changes on customer sentiment.

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Romantasy's Rise Analysis
February 6, 2025

Romantasy's Rise: Finding Trends In Social And Non-Social Sources

Combining Infegy's Social Dataset and Custom Data Collection to showcase a genre's explosive growth.

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Election Social Media Analysis
November 14, 2024

Election Social Media Bias: X/Twitter vs. Threads & Bluesky

An analysis of how different social platforms covered the election season and their potential biases.

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Presentations

Led 10 webinars and conference presentations at Infegy on social listening methodology, API capabilities, and consumer intelligence, driving $9.9M in pipeline.

Election Webinar
February 2025

Influencer Impact: How Audiences Drove The 2024 US Election

Analysis of how influencers and their audiences affected social conversation during the 2024 Presidential election.

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AI Webinar
January 2025

Smarter Social Listening: Merging Generative AI with Infegy Insights

Learn how to improve workflows with Infegy AI's new summary tool and other workflow improvements.

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Starscape API Webinar
November 2024

Infegy's Starscape API: Harnessing Speed + Flexibility in Social Listening

Walkthrough of the Starscape API's functionality and use cases for social media analytics.

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Technical Projects

Tools and dashboards built with Infegy's APIs.

Infegy's Fear + Cheer Index
April 2025 – May 2025

Infegy's Fear + Cheer Index

A real-time economic sentiment tracker built on Infegy's social data. Pulls from millions of social conversations to surface shifts in public mood and financial behavior as they happen.

Python JavaScript
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Brands at Risk Dashboard
January 2024 – May 2024

Brands at Risk Dashboard

Using a ranking algorithm I wrote, this dashboard tracks which brands across the world are undergoing PR crises. Built with Infegy Starscape's API, it automatically updates each day.

Python JavaScript
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Infegy Query Converter
March 2024

Infegy Query Converter

Wrote a converter tool that translates JSON queries from Infegy Atlas into equivalent queries for Infegy Starscape.

Python JavaScript
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Criminal Intelligence

Technical analysis, case studies, and presentations in criminal justice and law enforcement.

Technical Projects

Tools and systems developed for criminal justice and law enforcement applications.

Kansas City Violence Dashboard
April 2021 – May 2022

Kansas City Violence Dashboard

Built a dashboard that tracks Kansas City's homicides and non-fatal shootings from incident to arrest and prosecution.

Python ESRI ArcGIS Pandas
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Prosecutor Case Dashboard
January 2021 – May 2022

Prosecutor Case Dashboard

An automated dashboard that displays 6,000 yearly pending and disposed Kansas City criminal cases.

Python ESRI ArcGIS Pandas
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Notable Cases

Key cases and investigations where data analysis played a crucial role.

James Jackson Case
2018

People of the State of New York vs. James Jackson

Led technical analysis for New York's first domestic terrorism homicide case. The defendant, a white supremacist from Baltimore, traveled to New York City with the intent to kill Black men. He stabbed Timothy Caughman to death in Midtown Manhattan, then attempted to kill others before being apprehended.

Cellebrite Magnet Forensics OSINT Cell Sites
Media Coverage
Race War Murder: Inside the mind of a white supremacist killer White Supremacist Charged in Manhattan Stabbing Death Terrorism charges for white man accused of hunting down Black men
Cameron Lamb Case
2021

State of Missouri vs. Eric DeValkenaere

In 2021, I provided technical analysis for the prosecution of Kansas City Police Detective Eric DeValkenaere, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of Cameron Lamb. This case marked the first time a Kansas City police officer was convicted of killing a Black man while on duty.

Python Multivariate Time Series GeoPandas Video
Media Coverage
Kansas City police detective convicted in fatal shooting of Cameron Lamb Missouri Detective Is Convicted in Fatal Shooting of Black Man Outside His Home Former Missouri detective sentenced to 6 years for killing man in his driveway

Presentations

Speaking engagements and training sessions on criminal justice analytics.

IACA Conference Presentation
2022

Drug Enforcement and Violence: A Data-Driven Analysis

Presented findings at the International Association of Crime Analysts conference on the relationship between drug enforcement and violence in Kansas City.

Python Pandas OCR
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Kansas City Drug Cases Presentation
2021

Low-Level Drug Cases and Violence: A Data Analysis

Presented findings to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners demonstrating that low-level drug cases do not equate to violence.

Python Pandas OCR
Watch on YouTube →

Interests

The mountains have been a constant in my life: guiding teenagers through the backcountry at Philmont, alpine climbing in the Rockies, and hiking 1,250 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail.

Adventures

  • 1,250 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail through California and Washington, as featured in the New York Times
  • 20,000 ft. summit of Huayna Potosí in Bolivia
  • 50 miles off-trail through the southern Sierra Nevada
  • 90 miles along the Continental Divide Trail in Wyoming's Wind Rivers

Training & Certifications

  • Professional backpacking guide at Philmont Scout Ranch
  • Eagle Scout, 2008
  • NOLS Wilderness First Responder and nationally certified EMT-B
  • AIARE Level 1 Avalanche certified
  • Member of New Mexico's second-largest search and rescue team
Kelso Ridge, Colorado
Kelso Ridge, Colorado
Mt. Flora, Colorado
Mt. Flora, Colorado
Pacific Crest Trail, Washington
Pacific Crest Trail, Washington
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
Kasparov Traverse, Colorado
Kasparov Traverse, Colorado
Southern Sierra Nevada high route
Southern Sierra Nevada, California
North Cascades, Washington
North Cascades, Washington
Craters of the Moon, Idaho
Craters of the Moon, Idaho

Contact

I'm a Sales Engineer at Datadog. If something on this site resonates, feel free to reach out.

Denver, Colorado
henry.chapman@icloud.com
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Henry Chapman climbing Citadel Peak, Colorado
Citadel Peak, Colorado, 2025