Denis Zaitcev
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Zaitcev is an experienced engineering manager based in Dublin with 12 years of hands-on SRE and infrastructure leadership, now at Datadog after driving reliability at Tetrate and Dropbox. He has built and run systems handling billions of daily requests, launching multicloud SaaS platforms and continent-spanning CDN and compute infrastructures from the ground up. Comfortable in greenfield environments, he blends deep kernel- and Linux-level tuning with pragmatic automation (Ansible, Python, bash) and production security practices to improve developer velocity. Denis is known for stepping into the widest-ranging operational challenges—from CI/CD and observability to complex networking troubleshooting—and for turning opaque, high-risk systems into measurable, maintainable services.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Github Skills (62)
proxy9
telemetry9
opentelemetry8
high-performance8
aws8
accelerator8
gcp8
collector8
monitoring8
golang8
dns-record7
csharp7
kubernetes7
observability7
func7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
oktocat/terraform-provider-checkmate
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
oktocat/slo-generator
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
SLO Generator is a tool to compute SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets and Burn rate and export an SLO report to supported exporters.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 19 days
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