Summary
Carlo Cabanilla is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing infrastructure. He played a key role architecting Datadog’s realtime metrics and events pipeline and continuous deployment tooling, bringing production-grade reliability and operational insight to fast-moving teams. His career spans startups and product companies, blending hands-on development—from Python ETL and REST services to monitoring systems—with leadership in shipping and scaling distributed services. Now focused on community-building in Santa Monica through the Bahala Foundation, he pairs technical depth with a civic-minded mission to improve local quality of life. Collected practical experience across gaming, analytics, and education-tech gives him a knack for turning complex backend problems into user-facing value. He’s as comfortable optimizing nightly batch jobs and deployment pipelines as he is organizing neighborhood knowledge about food, childcare, and shared workspaces.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University