Jamie Alquiza
Senior Staff Engineer at Datadog
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States
Summary
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SeniorJamie Alquiza is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years designing and operating petabyte-scale distributed systems, currently leading infrastructure and data platform efforts at Datadog. He specializes in time-series routing, large-scale Kafka operability, auto-scaling, and datastore performance, and authored/open-sourced tooling (Kafka-Kit) used to manage partitioning and replication at extreme scale. Jamie’s work spans hands-on systems engineering to architectural leadership—building Kafka auto-scaling, secrets storage, and operational tooling that enable double-digit petabyte deployments. Based in the Detroit area, he brings deep production reliability experience from roles at Mandiant and Nexcess and a pragmatic systems-first approach to complex operational problems. An interesting detail: he blends modern cloud-scale engineering with a hacker curiosity (his GitHub quips about “runs ms-dos”), reflecting a long-term tinkerer mentality beneath enterprise-grade delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (48)
env10
elasticsearch-cluster10
benchmark10
testing10
storage10
http10
kafka10
abstraction10
environment-variables10
histogram10
sarama10
latency10
go10
lru10
gossip10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamiealquiza/collider
Dec 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 2 issues in 2 years 3 months
jamiealquiza/sleepwalk
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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