Braden Thuraisingham is user experience researcher currently working at Datadog. He was the first UX researcher hired at the company and has spent the last 2 years building and developing an impactful research culture that enables product designers, engineers, and product managers to make more informed decisions. Braden utilizes scrappy and rapid research approaches to scale research and get stakeholders bought into the work. He has an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University where he studied Communications with a focus in Sociology and a Masters of Science degree in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from UC Irvine. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.