Andrew Baptist
Software Engineer at Datadog
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Baptist is a seasoned software engineer with 7 years of recent hands-on experience and a two-decade span of senior technical leadership across startups and enterprise teams. He has held engineering and executive roles—from VP of Technology at Cleversafe and Distinguished Engineer at IBM to Member of the Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs—and now contributes at Datadog. His work spans distributed databases, backend systems, and performance engineering, highlighted by contributions to CockroachDB where he optimized lock-table access and improved concurrency handling for a well-known cloud-native SQL database. Comfortable both managing teams and shipping low-level improvements, he blends architectural thinking with pragmatic coding and testing discipline. Based in Lower Merion Township, PA, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a track record of navigating fault-tolerant, high-availability systems. A not-obvious strength is his history of moving between technical leadership and deep individual contributor work, making him effective at bridging strategy and implementation.
7 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (11)
go10
database-design10
testing10
sql9
distributed-systems9
error-handling9
database-administration8
raft8
concurrency8
networking8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
May 2022 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:992 reviews, 36 commits, 442 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's contributions primarily focus on improving the database layer within the CockroachDB project. The user implemented performance enhancements to the QueryIntent request by optimizing access to the lock table and adding unit tests. The user also fixed comment information in the concurrency code and implemented changes related to handling network partitions and various error conditions. The work includes both code modifications and improvements to testing procedures.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
andrewbaptist/cockroach
May 2022 - Feb 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1914 pushes, 504 branches in 2 years 9 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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