George Erickson
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Erickson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building distributed systems and backend services, currently focused on Redshift query optimization at AWS. He has deep expertise in Go and Python demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like the Datadog Agent, where he implemented and refactored aggregation and distribution sampling logic. His career spans startup CTO and staff/data engineering roles through to senior IC work at Datadog and AWS, showing both product-facing and large-scale systems experience. Based in Boston, he blends practical performance engineering with strong testing and code-quality instincts (gofmt, test updates), often improving core metrics and serialization paths. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves smoothly between prototyping and production hardening, bringing a pragmatic approach to complex distributed problems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
algorithm10
algorithms10
aggregator10
data-structure10
go10
data-structures10
datastructures-algorithms10
metric10
observability9
apm-agent8
distributed-tracing8
opentelemetry-go7
opentelemetry7
django-models6
zeromq6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Datadog Agent. Their work involved implementing and refactoring core features, including percentile calculations and distribution metrics. They made changes to the aggregator and distribution sampling logic within the Go codebase, as well as modifying existing tests to pass. The commits also focused on cleaning up the code using gofmt, removing unnecessary casts, and implementing SketchSeriesList.Marshal.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
geeio/gee.io
Jan 2016 - Jul 2022
The main site
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 6 months
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