Aaron Wang
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Wang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and storage-driven indexing at Datadog, where he progressed from intern to senior engineer. He specializes in building indices and data pipelines leveraging LevelDB, RocksDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kafka, and has practical Kubernetes/operator experience for stateful services. His background includes cloud personalization work at Acquia and academic research on GPU side-channel attacks, reflecting both applied product engineering and systems-level security insight. Based in New York, he combines strong hands-on backend expertise with a track record of shipping production-grade infrastructure at scale. Collected at Northeastern University, his dual Computer Engineering and Computer Science training informs a pragmatic approach to performance-sensitive systems. Notably, he advanced through multiple roles within the same team at Datadog, demonstrating deep domain ownership and continuous technical growth.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityAdvanced Regents Diploma, Advanced Regents Diploma at Stuyvesant High SchoolElementary School Degree General Studies, Elementary School Degree General Studies at PS 101
Github Skills (19)
rust-lang10
cargo10
idris10
rust10
datadog8
dedicated-server8
dotnet8
hugo8
java-client7
documentation7
openapi6
golang6
api6
java5
rocksdb5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
az0977776/EasyAnimator
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:121 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
az0977776/graphics-homework
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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