Alexander Costas
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Costas is an engineering manager based in New York with nine years of experience building and leading teams that deliver production-grade software for observability and distributed systems. Currently at Datadog, he is spearheading enterprise adoption of OpenTelemetry across a large stack, blending hands-on engineering with cross-team coordination. Previously he led performance testing automation at MongoDB, developing systems to schedule, run, and analyze large-scale benchmarks. His background spans startups and enterprise banking software, plus early CTO experience at his own company, showing both product instincts and operational rigor. Trained in mathematics and physics with interdisciplinary research experience in biomedical and civil engineering, he brings quantitative thinking to software architecture and performance engineering. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technologist who enjoys translating scientific curiosity into reliable, measurable systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics - Probability Theory, Mathematics - Probability Theory at University of MannheimBachelor's degree Majors in Mathematics & Physics Minors in Chemistry & Biology., Bachelor's degree Majors in Mathematics & Physics Minors in Chemistry & Biology. at University of MiamiAbitur Electromechanical Engineering, Abitur Electromechanical Engineering at Carl Bosch Schule -- Technisches Gymnasium
English, German, Romanian, Spanish
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Github Skills (56)
monitoring10
observability10
stackdriver10
continuous-integration10
nosql10
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry-collector10
collector10
mongodb-database10
pmm10
agent10
go10
apm-agent10
system-integration10
profiling10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ancostas/cedar
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
data sink service
Contributions:161 pushes, 48 branches in 7 months
sinkdata-sinkkafkaarchitecture
nsamteladze/Ruzik-Odyssey-App
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Ruzik Odyssey game.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
gameodyssey
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