Summary
Alan Vandijk is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, resilient cloud services and data pipelines, currently focused on high-throughput metering systems at Datadog. He brings deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, serverless patterns, Infrastructure-as-Code, and stream processing (Go, Java, gRPC, Kafka, Flink, Spark). Comfortable owning features end-to-end, Alan thrives when given loose requirements to design, implement, and deploy maintainable, well-documented systems that prioritize code quality and observability. His background includes full-stack microservice work at Amazon and contributions to cloud deployment and security at Cisco, giving him strong operational instincts from on-call and incident response experience. Based in Arlington, MA, he combines a creator’s mindset with an engineer’s discipline, and outside work you’ll find him sketching in coffee shops, crafting, or experimenting with music and synths.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst