Alex Vidal
Señor In Perpetuity - Developer Experience at Datadog
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Vidal is a senior developer-experience engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently solving problems close to the keyboard at Datadog in Austin. He brings deep expertise in Python, Django, Go, service integration and MySQL from roles at Cloudflare, Atlassian, Khan Academy and others, focused on making development environments and networked services more productive. Alex has a history of improving tooling and integrations—his open-source contributions include extending a Python IRC bot with social media plugins and robust error handling—showing attention to reliability and real-world edge cases. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a long track record of enabling other teams to ship.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (18)
apim10
irc-bot10
python10
plugin-development10
api10
javascript9
jquery9
webscraping9
css9
error-handling9
html6
django-models6
nodejs6
php6
sql6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rmmh/skybot
Mar 2009 - Dec 2014
Python IRC bot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 comments in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the functionality of the Python IRC bot, adding and modifying plugins. They implemented a plugin to post buttbot messages to Twitter, handling API interactions and data formatting. Further contributions include fixing bugs in existing plugins like `lastfm.py` and `metacritic.py`, and improved error handling and data processing within the `metacritic` plugin. They also addressed bugs related to dates in the `tvdb.py` plugin.
irc-botpythonbotpython3irc
avidal/dokku
Feb 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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