Brian Falk
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Falk is a software engineer with 13 years building cloud-native, high-throughput systems, currently working in the Golang and Kubernetes ecosystem at Datadog in New York. He has led engineering teams and product architecture—from CTO at a marketing tech startup to engineering lead for a platform that processed over a billion events per day—bringing practical experience with containerized services, distributed databases, and message brokers. Comfortable moving bytes through queues and databases, he excels on small, talented teams and has hands-on experience integrating APIs, demonstrated by contributions to a Node.js HubSpot API wrapper. He combines formal training from Columbia and Penn with a pragmatic, systems-first approach to reliability and scalability, and often gravitates toward backend and infrastructure problems that benefit from both operational discipline and incremental product thinking.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Columbia EngineeringBA BSE Physics and Computer Engineering, BA BSE Physics and Computer Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (9)
apim10
api-rest10
rest-api10
hubspot-api10
javascript10
nodejs10
api10
api-design10
restful-api10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MadKudu/node-hubspot
Jan 2014 - Aug 2017
Node wrapper for the HubSpot API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer/Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & API Developer/Integration EngineerContributions:118 commits, 36 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to building out the back-end functionality of a Node.js wrapper for the HubSpot API. Their work focused on adding new API endpoints for various HubSpot services like campaigns, lists, and files. They implemented and extended functionality for API requests including adding the ability to set a new base URL, and they also integrated campaign tracking capabilities. The user demonstrated strong skills in API integration.
apihubspot-apinodejshubspotnode-wrapper
brainflake/passport-mailchimp
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
authenticationstrategymailchimppassportauthentication-strategy
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