Dave Handy
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Catonsville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDave Handy is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently contributing at Datadog after leading data platform work as Principal Engineer and Director of Data Engineering at Protenus. He specializes in Java and Scala backends—with deep hands-on experience in akka-streams and data processing frameworks—and pairs that with front-end JavaScript work using React and mobx. At Protenus he designed the ingest and processing pipeline that supported 13+ health record systems and 70+ clients, and helped establish high engineering standards including strong test coverage and CI/CD practices. Comfortable shifting between individual contributor and technical leadership duties, he has experience mentoring engineers, running on-call rotations, and owning platform reliability. Based in Catonsville, MD, he prefers commercial roles and is explicitly not seeking federal or cleared positions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves quickly from MVP to production-grade systems while keeping an eye on long-term operability.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals
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Github Skills (95)
hugo10
guice10
dependency-injection10
mobx10
documentation10
injection10
datadog10
reactive9
javascript9
avro9
akka9
reactive-programming9
high-performance9
scalable9
streaming9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dave-handy/hadoop
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
hadoopmechanismupgrades
protenus/dipendi-jsr330
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
JSR 330 spec implementation for dipendi
Contributions:7 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
javajsrjsr-330spec
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