Alex Forsythe
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Forsythe is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems and developer tools, currently at Datadog. He designs and implements maintainable, well-documented architectures—recently authoring a Go microservices platform that integrates Twitch and OpenAI, backed by RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL, and deployed with Terraform on DigitalOcean. Alex has deep operational experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, ArgoCD, and AWS, and helped a cybersecurity training company mature toward SOC 2 readiness, giving him strong security and compliance instincts baked into his engineering practices. His background in game and location-based entertainment development informs a practical, systems-minded approach to real-time and interactive features, automation, and tooling. Comfortable spanning prototypes to enterprise-scale products, he emphasizes testability, documentation, and maintainability so teams can iterate confidently.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Interactive Design & Game Development, BFA, Interactive Design & Game Development at Savannah College of Art and Design
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (29)
nintendo-ds9
nintendo9
emulation9
cpp8
arm8
directions7
data-structures6
fossil6
texture-mapping6
chat6
binding6
texture6
opengl6
docker6
coordinates6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awforsythe/perfgraph
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:32 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
awforsythe/fossils
Apr 2020 - May 2020
A little webapp for tracking Animal Crossing: New Horizons fossil collections with a group of friends
Contributions:39 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 28 days
animal-trackingfossil-collectionscrossingtrackinghorizons
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