Brian Floersch
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Floersch is a Senior Software Engineer in Somerville, MA with 14 years of experience building reliable, high-performance data pipelines and back-end systems. At Datadog he focuses on improving log processing, telemetry, and configuration robustness for large-scale agent software, and his open-source contributions include test and formatting fixes to the widely used datadog-go client. Previously he spent four years at Microsoft developing iOS and Mac features for Intune, with earlier internships touching Android MAM, accessibility, and cloud tooling—demonstrating cross-platform breadth. He combines practical production-focused engineering with attention to observability and operational edge cases like rotated logs and tailer timeouts. Known for improving reliability and developer ergonomics, he brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to distributed systems. Outside his day job he contributes to high-impact open-source projects that underpin observability at scale.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
logging10
go10
statsd10
testing10
metric9
telemetry9
observability8
distributed-tracing7
apm-agent6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1016 reviews, 324 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Datadog Agent's log processing capabilities. They added features like warning logs for rotated log files, configurable tailer timeouts, and the ability to expose log ingestion volume per source. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the configuration by enabling setting dogstatsd_mapper_profiles via an environment variable, and addressed time-related bugs within the logging and configuration components, enhancing the agent's reliability and configurability. Finally, the user also contributed to exposing HTTP destination usage as telemetry.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/datadog-go
May 2021 - Jan 2022
go dogstatsd client library for datadog
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 9 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the `datadog-go` library by adding and modifying tests, along with implementing newline terminations in the `statsd` formatting functions. The contributions included addressing test-related issues across various formatting functions, and ensuring consistent event formatting. Additionally, the user updated the library's version information and related documentation.
golangclient-librarydogstatsdgodogstatsd-client
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