Alexander Costas
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.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of MannheimBachelor of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry at University of MiamiAbitur, Electromechanical Engineering, Abitur, Electromechanical Engineering at Carl-Bosch-Schule Heidelberg
English, German, Romanian, Spanish
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Github Skills (33)
monitoring10
observability10
nosql10
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry-collector10
mongodb-database10
go10
apm-agent10
profiling10
datadog10
opentelemetry10
logging10
mongodb10
telemetry10
otel10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/signal-processing-algorithms
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:17 reviews, 21 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ancostas/cedar
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
data sink service
Contributions:161 pushes, 48 branches in 7 months
sinkdata-sinkkafkaarchitecture
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