Gregory Fast
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGregory Fast is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-scale analytics and data platforms for companies like Datadog, ServiceNow (Lightstep), and Twitter. He specializes in backend systems, distributed data pipelines, and observability, having led metrics and media-engagement platforms that moved teams from lambda to kappa architectures while leveraging GCP managed services, BigQuery/Bigtable, Dataflow, and Terraform. Gregory combines deep C++ systems experience from his early career at BlackBerry with hands-on design and leadership across analytics teams, emphasizing privacy, reliability, and infrastructure-as-code. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell and a background in scientific simulation work for the DoD, which surfaces in his disciplined approach to numerical rigor and performance. Colleagues value him as a technical lead who turns complex data challenges into practical, cost-conscious solutions that accelerate customers’ time to insight.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at Bucknell UniversityThe University of EdinburghHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Academy for Math, Science, and Engineering
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (42)
operator10
kubernetes-operator10
opentelemetry-collector10
collector10
binding10
opentelemetry10
asio9
client-library8
rest8
lightstep8
facebook8
observability8
json8
kubernetes8
c-library7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gdfast/opentelemetry-operator
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Kubernetes Operator for OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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