Alex Meyer
Senior Data Engineer
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Meyer is a Senior Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building cost-conscious, production-ready data platforms and streaming architectures. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he has driven large migrations and self-managed cluster automation at Eventbrite and now focuses on cloud cost management and developer experience at Datadog. Alex blends hands-on systems work—Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Lake, Kafka, EMR/AMI automation, Terraform/Ansible—with product instincts honed from founding multiple side projects and consumer apps. He’s delivered dramatic cost and performance wins (e.g., replacing Databricks streaming to cut costs by ~86%) and is as comfortable leading engineering teams as he is implementing low-level optimizations. A former UAV navigation lead and recipient of a DoD secret clearance during internships, he pairs academic rigor (BS/MS, Vanderbilt) with practical, production-first engineering.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (60)
hugo10
datadog10
documentation10
jython8
pypy8
command-line-interface8
architecture7
spark7
azure-cli7
storage7
python7
azure7
batch6
pypi6
cython6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BazaarMarkets/Bazaar_Android
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch, 15 issues in 2 months
alextmeyer/cs381_team_work
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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