Summary
Alvee Akand is a senior software engineer and curriculum designer with nine years of experience building backend and large-scale distributed systems and leading technical learning programs for organizations of 3,000+ engineers. Currently at Datadog, he architects onboarding and ongoing training while previously managing curriculum migrations and CI/CD improvements across 300+ repos at Flatiron School. He has authored 600+ hours of content across languages and systems (Java, Python, TypeScript, Spring, containers, databases) and has developed interview and training pipelines used by Amazon, BlackRock, and Yale. As co-founder and host of NYC Coders, he runs NYC’s largest DS&A meetup and a 2,000+ Discord community, translating real-world distributed systems experience into hands-on workshops. He pairs systems-level engineering with pedagogy and automation—often building tooling to speed testing, content publication, and curriculum delivery—bringing both production-grade code and scalable education design to developer teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at IUT
Software Engineering Immersive Program, Software Engineering Immersive Program at NYC Tech Talent Pipeline
Bangla, English, Spanish, Hindi