Summary
Alex Zvorygin is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale platform and reliability systems, currently working on infrastructure at Datadog after multiple impactful roles at Stripe. He has driven measurable improvements—cutting Bazel sync times by 43%, saving $700k/year through autoscaling, and designing graceful shutdown and traffic draining used by thousands of services. Comfortable across Go, Java, and cloud-native tooling, he has led deploy/monitoring projects for developer productivity and ran gameday exercises that averted multi-hour outages. His background includes hands-on cost optimization, security fixes, and front-end features from internships through production systems, reflecting a pragmatic engineer who balances developer experience, reliability, and operational cost. Based in New York, he combines Waterloo-trained CS fundamentals with a track record of shipping resilient infrastructure at scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
OSSD, OSSD at William Lyon Mackenzie C.I.
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S.) Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Russian