Evan Bender
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Bender is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient backend systems and wrangling time-series data at scale. Based in Jersey City, he currently applies Rust, Go, and Python to high-throughput pipelines and storage (Kafka, Postgres, RocksDB) at Datadog, after shaping distributed backend and devops systems at EnergyHub and Percolate. Comfortable across the stack, he combines deep systems thinking with practical ops skills—K8s, Linux, and cloud automation—to deliver reliable production services. His background in human ecology and a history running a small business and a bike shop give him an unconventional, pragmatic problem-solving style and a knack for bricolage and clear technical communication.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Human Ecology, Art, Philosophy, BA, Human Ecology, Art, Philosophy at College of the Atlantic
Github Skills (71)
python10
sink10
producer-consumer10
python-client10
kafka10
faust10
rabbitmq9
testing9
low-level9
unit-testing9
pytest9
scales9
c-extension9
producer9
apache-kafka9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benauthor/benauthor.github.com
Oct 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 9 years 4 months
benauthor/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Jan 2024
my dotfiiiiilllllllles
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 11 months
dotfiles
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