Lucas Flowers
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Flowers is a software engineer with eight years of experience building Python backend systems, currently contributing to Datadog after a stint at Spotify following its acquisition of Findaway. He specialized in audiobook delivery pipelines at Findaway, evolving into backend work at a major streaming company and now applying that production-scale mindset to observability tooling. His background in computer science and mathematics (with a physics minor) complements a research-minded approach rooted in earlier academic work on nanoantennas and statistical studies. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he focuses on reliable, scalable pipelines and pragmatic system design. A New York–based engineer, he brings a blend of domain specialization in media delivery and a curiosity for data-driven problem solving that informs his engineering decisions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science and Mathematics (minor: Physics), Bachelor's Computer Science and Mathematics (minor: Physics) at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (28)
hugo10
datadog10
password-manager9
documentation9
linux8
windows-application8
yubikey8
security8
keepass8
windows7
macos7
privacy6
cross-platform6
sublime-text6
sublime4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lucas-flowers/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:134 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 8 months
lucas-flowers/snutree
Aug 2017 - May 2021
Visualize big–little brother/sister relationships in Greek-letter organizations
Contributions:1 release, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
brotherlettervisualizeorganizationsvisualization
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