Albert Cintora
Senior Software Engineer - Datadog Plugin For JetBrains IDEs
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAlbert Cintora is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in backend systems, DevOps, and developer tooling, currently building the Datadog plugin for JetBrains IDEs to surface production runtime insights directly in code. He has led teams at Datadog across the Agent Platform and CI Visibility libraries, driving cross-platform agent builds, CI/CD integrations, and reliability improvements for projects used on millions of machines. A prolific open-source contributor to flagship Datadog repos (datadog-agent, dd-trace-java, integrations-core) and KDE’s device-bridging tools, he blends low-level systems work in C/C++ with Python, Go and JVM ecosystems. His experience spans startup engineering and infrastructure at Verse and Amazon-scale cloud services, giving him both product sensibility and operational rigor. Based in Tübingen, Germany, he pairs deep build-system and CI expertise with a practical focus on observability and developer experience. An unexpected thread through his career is a persistent attention to portability and tooling—improving compiler compatibility, cross-OS installs, and CI metadata extraction that quietly reduce friction for thousands of users.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaMajor in Games Programming Computer Science, Major in Games Programming Computer Science at Windesheim[Online] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, [Online] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (75)
python10
sdl10
distributed-tracing10
c1110
integrations10
ruby10
c1710
javas10
chef-client10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
trace10
puppet10
githubaction-workflow10
opengl10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/kdeconnect-android
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Native Android port of the KDE Connect Qt app
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:518 commits, 13 comments in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the development of the Android version of KDE Connect. Their work involved fixing bugs and refactoring code related to the Bluetooth backend, file transfer, and notification handling. They also added new features, such as a settings option to add received files to the Downloads app, and worked on various code improvements, including making the presenter's pointer feature functional.
kdeandroid-nativeandroid
KDE/kdeconnect-kde
Jun 2013 - Dec 2022
Multi-platform app that allows your devices to communicate
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:791 commits, 6 comments in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the "kdeconnect-kde" repository, which facilitates communication between devices. The user implemented and modified code related to system configuration, including shell scripting and configuration file modifications. Moreover, the user implemented and improved the file transfer and mpris support (media player controls), showing an interest in enhancing the functionality related to file and media sharing within the application.
app-platformwindowscommunicatelinuxandroid
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