Kevin Gallardo
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Gallardo is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping resilient, high-throughput distributed systems, currently building Datadog Workflows' core backend with Temporal, Go/gRPC, and fault-tolerant queues and storage. He has deep expertise in data platforms and databases from roles at Datadog and DataStax, contributing to Apache Cassandra 4.0, DSE Graph, and performance-sensitive driver and query engine work. Kevin blends systems-level thinking (NUMA-aware research and kernel tooling during grad work) with pragmatic cloud-native ops—Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, and multi-cloud deployments—delivering production-grade microservices at scale. Based in Charlotte, NC, he pairs a master’s in Distributed Systems with a playful open-source sensibility (his GitHub quip: "Waffles are just pancakes with abs"), signaling both technical rigor and a lighthearted collaborative style.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Université de ToulonMaster's degree Distributed Systems and Applications, Master's degree Distributed Systems and Applications at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French
Github Skills (67)
graph-database10
gremlin10
reactive10
nosql10
reactive-extensions10
jackson10
observable10
x1210
database10
jvm10
cassandra10
datastax10
graph10
apache10
java10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
newkek/java-driver
Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 72 pushes, 24 branches in 3 years 1 month
cassandraapachedatabasedatastaxapache-cassandra
newkek/kgdo-website
Oct 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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