Codey Oxley
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCodey Oxley is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, reliable systems across networking, observability, and consumer-facing retail platforms. He specializes in identity graphs, event ingestion, and compression/optimization work that turned 1.5–2x compression into 10–15x while cutting CPU overhead dramatically, saving his company hundreds of thousands annually. A former network engineer and sysadmin, he blends deep systems knowledge with software craftsmanship to simplify complex distributed architectures and make them operable at scale. He’s driven observability and performance improvements at Bluecore and now works on KV/transactional storage at Datadog, with a history of creating single-instance services sustaining 50k RPS. An active open-source contributor, he’s patched gRPC and upstream Go projects and added Cisco ASA support to a popular network automation toolkit, reflecting his cross-domain fluency. Colleagues rely on him as a bridge between infra, frontend, and product teams to deliver pragmatic, measurable reliability gains.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cisco Networking Academy, Cisco Networking Academy at Ben Franklin Career Center
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
network-automation10
python10
networking10
nethttp6
goroutine6
deadlock6
struct6
go6
grpc6
python-asyncio6
operating-system6
git5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
trigger/trigger
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Trigger is a robust network automation toolkit written in Python that was designed for interfacing with network devices.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 17 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Codey focused on adding support for Cisco ASA firewalls to the network automation toolkit. This included implementing new methods for disabling paging, adapting existing commands for ASA compatibility, and adding a new platform to the supported settings. The user also contributed to the documentation and plugin capabilities of the project, adding example code and updating the changelog to reflect the new ASA features. Furthermore, they added .gitignore configurations and updated the versioning of the project.
netmikopythonnetwork-devicesnetwork-automationtrigger
coxley/snmp-ifmib-graphite
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:66 commits in 6 days
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