Brian Seitz
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Seitz is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput backend systems for companies from The New York Times to Amazon and Datadog. He specializes in distributed systems, streaming platforms, and resilience engineering—having supported tens of thousands of engineers and services at Amazon and scaled event collection and ad pipelines 10x at BuzzFeed. His background includes launching production Go services, leading greenfield ETL tools that processed tens of millions of records, and operating a bulk email system sending billions of messages per year. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and manager, he blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership and a knack for operationalizing complex data workflows. Based in New York, he pairs academic CS foundations from NYU with pragmatic, production-first engineering that often surfaces in infrastructure and observability work.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (9)
nyc10
transit9
react7
pdf7
mobile-web7
docx7
python6
golang5
reader3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brnstz/bus
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1304 commits, 1 PR, 510 pushes in 3 years 2 months
reactdiscoveringmobile-web-apppublic-transitmobile-web
brnstz/algo
Jan 2014 - Jun 2018
Introductory algorithms in Go
Contributions:133 commits, 14 PRs, 85 pushes in 4 years 5 months
golangintroductory
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