Liza Pressman
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLiza Pressman is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and distributed-tracing integrations, now based in Somerville, MA. A triple major in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Studio Arts from the University of Rochester, she brings a rare mix of analytical rigor and creative thinking to engineering problems. At Datadog she has contributed to the widely-used dd-trace-java APM client, improving Kafka and RabbitMQ context propagation and adding configurable controls for topic/exchange propagation. Her background includes full-stack internships using Java, Spring Boot, jOOQ, React, and Vue.js, and early teaching roles that honed her ability to explain complex algorithms clearly. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who balances efficiency-focused code improvements with thoughtful design and test coverage.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Acalanes High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Mathematics and Studio Arts, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Mathematics and Studio Arts at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (9)
distributed-tracing10
rabbitmq10
javas10
kafka10
tracer10
trace10
java10
apm10
java-agent7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-java
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Datadog APM client for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 17 commits, 15 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Liza contributed to the Datadog APM client for Java by implementing and testing new features, including those related to Kafka integration and B3 header propagation. They addressed issues such as context propagation for Kafka topics and RabbitMQ queues, adding configuration options to disable propagation for specific topics and exchanges. The user also worked on general code formatting and efficiency improvements.
apm-clientapmbytebuddydatadoghqtracing
lizapressman/PersonalWebsite
Apr 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 105 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
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