David Goffredo
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Goffredo is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend and infrastructure systems, currently focused on C++ distributed tracing for application performance at Datadog. He has a strong background in low-latency, systems-level work from roles at Bloomberg and OkCupid and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Envoy—implementing Datadog tracing integrations and core tracing primitives. Comfortable across domains from financial derivatives tooling to web backend extraction and presentation, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to observability and performance. His academic background in physics and music hints at a methodical, pattern-oriented problem-solving style and interdisciplinary curiosity. Based in New York, he often operates at the intersection of production reliability and developer-facing tooling, delivering measurable visibility into complex, distributed HTTP proxy environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at West Boca Raton Community High SchoolBachelor of Arts, Music, Bachelor of Arts, Music at University of Florida
Github Skills (8)
distributed-tracing10
unit-testing10
c-language10
system-testing10
cprogramming-language10
qtest10
testing10
observability9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 1 commit, 26 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the Datadog tracing integration within the Envoy proxy, implementing crucial components for a new tracing library. Their work included developing utilities for time and dictionary manipulation, tracer statistics, and a core span class. They also wrote tests for these new features. Additionally, the user modified project dependencies, including the dd-trace-cpp library.
cloud-nativeproxyrocket-shipscarsmore-cats
dgoffredo/compilation-metrics
Jul 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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