Allen George
Engineering Manager 1 at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarAllen George is an Engineering Manager with 16 years of experience, currently leading teams at Datadog in New York City and focused on building reliable backend systems. He combines hands-on backend engineering expertise—particularly in distributed systems—with people leadership to drive scalable production services. An active open-source contributor, he added Rust support to the widely used Apache Thrift project, implementing code generation, serialization for structs and enums, recursive type handling, and a threaded server. That blend of shipping production services and contributing low-level cross-language tooling gives him a pragmatic appreciation for performance, interoperability, and long-lived system design.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
code-generation10
rust10
thrift10
back-end-development10
c-language8
compiler-compiler8
compiler8
cprogramming-language8
ide6
algorithm6
jakartaee6
consensus6
numpy6
ruby6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/thrift
Nov 2016 - Oct 2021
Apache Thrift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 35 commits, 50 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Allen primarily contributed to the Apache Thrift project by implementing support for the Rust language. Their contributions included creating a Rust code generator and associated files within the compiler directory. The user added support for Rust structs and enums, including traits and methods for serialization and deserialization. Furthermore, the user focused on improving the Rust implementation, adding support for recursive types, implementing a threaded server, and addressing bugs.
thriftdcplusplusdartactionscript
allengeorge/thrift
Dec 2016 - Jul 2022
Mirror of Apache Thrift
Contributions:230 pushes, 56 branches in 5 years 7 months
thrift
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