Carlos Roman
Team Lead at Red Badger
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Roman is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently leading teams at Datadog and previously serving as a tech lead across companies like New Relic and the Financial Times. He is a polyglot developer specializing in JVM languages and concurrency, and a staunch advocate of Test Driven Development and Business Driven Development practices. Carlos blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—demonstrated by contributions to the Datadog Agent—with strategic responsibilities in CI/CD, cloud architecture, and delivery management. He has deep experience building and stabilizing microservices (Go, Java, Scala) and migrating infrastructure to modern cloud patterns using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Comfortable pairing with engineers and influencing product and security decisions, he balances coding with people leadership and technical strategy. An atypical strength is his track record of improving observability and logging in production agents, reflecting a pragmatic focus on operability as well as feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
CompSci, Computer Science, CompSci, Computer Science at Royal Holloway, U. of London
Spanish
Github Skills (10)
logging10
go10
devops9
monitoring9
configuration-management9
testing8
dockers7
docker7
distributed-tracing6
observability6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:195 reviews, 39 commits, 133 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent's backend functionality, with commits focused on configuring logs and implementing improvements to logging configurations within the agent. Their work involved modifications to the agent's task execution and configuration files, specifically related to how the agent runs, interacts with logs agents, and handles network configurations. The user's work also included updates to test files and copyright documentation.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
Financial-Times/neo-utils-go
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
Neo4j Utils in Go
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 9 months
golangutilsneo4j
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