Alessandro Siragusa
Senior Backend Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlessandro Siragusa is a Senior Backend Engineer and former CTO with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput, resilient systems for startups and media platforms. Based in Paris, he has led backend and infrastructure teams, migrated distributed monoliths to TypeScript/NestJS, and architected DynamoDB-based gaming logic that handled idempotency and at-least-once delivery for real-time wagering. He combines hands-on system design (Go, Node.js, Terraform, Kubernetes) with strong DevOps practices—instrumenting services from day one with Datadog and driving CI/CD and load-testing to reliably support bursty traffic up to thousands of TPS. A repeat founder and consultant, he also brings product-minded leadership from fundraising and award-winning startup work to complex technical trade-offs. Notably, he has operationalized payment and streaming platforms at scale (1M concurrent viewers, PCI/DSS-compliant architectures), blending pragmatic engineering with proven production experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at Università degli Studi di PalermoMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Italian, French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
fastcgi10
docker-machine10
permalinks10
in-memory-database10
dm10
message-queue10
bigtable10
stream-processing10
orchestration10
multiarch10
cqrs10
nosql10
wordpress10
docker-compose10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dockerparis/DockStack
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 7 months
ambassadordockersmartstack
togucms/ToguCMS
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
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