Alex Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Nelson is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building and deploying web applications across startups and large tech firms. A Carnegie Mellon Information Systems graduate, he has shipped production systems at Compass, Facebook, and Datadog, moving from individual contributor roles to senior engineering at a monitoring and analytics leader. He blends front-end and back-end experience—having driven React adoption at Disney and optimized Elasticsearch and data ingestion pipelines at BamSEC—with a knack for practical developer tooling and performance improvements. Comfortable in fast-paced, cross-functional teams, he’s known for turning research and analytics needs into reliable, production-ready services and for balancing remote collaboration with demanding academic and work schedules.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French
Github Skills (100)
threejs10
hugo10
svg10
moveable10
3d10
javascript10
webgl10
swipe-gestures10
layout10
typescript10
virtual-reality10
draggable10
grid-layout10
resizable10
layout-engine10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nelsondude/chessai
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
Frontend and Backend for 3CHESS
Contributions:4 PRs, 54 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 4 months
backendfrontend
nelsondude/lbg_site
Jan 2019 - Apr 2023
Site for Long Beach Graphix
Contributions:77 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 3 months
longgraphqlbeach
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