Irving Santiago
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolIrving Santiago is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical financial systems and distributed data platforms. He has led architecture and platform efforts at Paidy—driving Kafka-based event architectures, billing and payment processing, fraud detection, and incident response—before joining Datadog to continue tackling observability and reliability at scale. Irving combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, mentoring distributed teams across multiple time zones and translating executive strategy into technical roadmaps. His background spans startups, consulting, and enterprise analytics, including ownership of high-throughput event pipelines and machine-learning-backed pricing systems. He brings a pragmatic balance of governance and innovation, often smoothing the path from prototype to production-grade, compliant systems. Fluent in cross-functional collaboration, he quietly excels at creating repeatable frameworks that speed delivery and improve service quality.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Research Internship Biomedical Engineering, Research Internship Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Institute of Cellular Physiology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
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Github contributions (5)
elyasib/elyasib.github.io
Sep 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
elyasib/erikas-website
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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