Kato Tezapsidis
Senior Software Engineer at Grindr
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKato Tezapsidis is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years building resilient infrastructure, privacy tooling, and internal developer platforms across high-scale companies like LinkedIn, Datadog, Uber, and Grindr. He blends systems and data engineering expertise—designing privacy-compliant ingestion pipelines, scalable cookie scanners, and ML-powered search tooling—with hands-on work in Go, Python, Presto, HDFS and Terraform. Known for reducing onboarding time from months to days and for creating unified CLIs and data management platforms, he focuses on developer experience and observability. At Datadog and Uber he led multi-cloud reliability improvements and contributed to open-source metrics tooling, demonstrating deep operational acumen. Based in Chicago, he mentors engineers and frequently translates complex regulatory and infrastructure requirements into pragmatic, production-ready systems. He describes his work simply as “talking to computers for a living,” which belies a career of practical craftsmanship at the intersection of privacy, infra, and developer tools.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Web Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Web Design at New York UniversityHigh School, High School at West Orange High School
English, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
aggregator10
graphite10
sidecar10
prometheus10
promql10
monorepo10
paxos9
buffered9
raft9
query-engine9
docker8
counter8
golang8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
katezaps/basic-ruby-twitter
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
m3db/dtest
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 23 days
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