Alejandro Ruiz
Software Engineer at Datadog
Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Ruiz is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 14 years of professional experience and a decade-plus track record leading teams and delivery at scale. Currently at Datadog after guiding multi-team engineering efforts at THE ICONIC, he blends hands-on backend expertise (PHP, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET) with product-minded leadership focused on MVP and Lean practices. He has driven architecture and operational improvements across 60+ microservices on Kubernetes and has experience hardening e‑commerce platforms and security-focused tooling. An active contributor to notable open-source projects (e.g., enhancements to Datadog's PHP tracing client) and an educator—publishing a free TDD course and speaking at Agile Australia—he pairs pragmatic engineering with a passion for mentoring. Based in Alicante, Spain, Alejandro brings a curious, results-oriented approach informed by early web development roots and a Robotics Nanodegree.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BEng in Computer Management, Computer Software Engineering, 8.9, BEng in Computer Management, Computer Software Engineering, 8.9 at Universitat d'AlacantRobotics Nano Degree, Robotics Nano Degree at Udacity
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (11)
c1710
php10
c1110
testing9
apm8
tracer8
trace8
opentelemetry7
opentelemetry-go7
opentracing7
php-internals6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-php
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Datadog PHP Clients
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 292 reviews, 11 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Datadog PHP client library. Their work involved enhancing the library's ability to extract IP addresses from various HTTP headers, including handling port information within the `x-forwarded-for` header. They also refactored and simplified port detection mechanisms in the code, and added tests. Further, the user made code changes related to the removal of collecting IPs.
datadogphptracingapmopentracing
estringana/mybet
May 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:27 PRs, 168 pushes, 29 branches in 6 years 6 months
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