Douglas Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Smith is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with nine years of experience building high-throughput observability and infrastructure systems. He’s worked across top-tier product and platform teams at Airbnb, Datadog, and Lyft, focusing on metrics, logging, and resilient backend services written in Rust and Go. As a contributor to the high-performance vector observability pipeline, he has improved sinks for Datadog, ClickHouse, and Kafka and tackled real-world data issues like JSON deserialization and UTF-8 conversion. A former founding engineer at a food-tech startup and a CS teaching fellow at Harvard, he blends startup grit, production-scale engineering, and a strong grounding in CS fundamentals. Colleagues describe him as an owner who moves systems-level features from prototype to production with an eye for performance and maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (10)
json10
observability10
rust10
data-pipelines10
data-pipeline10
back-end-development10
kafka9
http9
clickhouse8
codec8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vectordotdev/vector
May 2023 - Feb 2024
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:502 reviews, 216 PRs, 223 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the back-end development of the observability data pipeline. Their work involved adding features to the `journald source`, marking code as deprecated, adding lossy options to JSON deserialization, and fixing UTF-8 conversions. They refactored code related to HTTP client usage and Clickhouse sink, making database and table templates configurable, and improving the performance of the Datadog metrics sink and Kafka sink.
stream-processingeventspipelinerustdata-observability
Adamokrzesik98/cssi-project
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:42 pushes in 6 days
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