Marcos López is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native automation and observability platforms, currently shaping Datadog’s internal workflow engine based on Temporal. A telecommunications engineer by training, he blends deep systems thinking with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Go, DevOps tooling, monitoring and large-scale infrastructure automation. He has helped scale clusters ~50x and drove workload growth from tens to hundreds of millions of workflows, contributing to high-performance, highly available platforms used by internal and customer workloads. Prior roles span DevOps and backend work—CI/CD migrations, OpenShift ephemeral environments, Ansible automation and developer tooling—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on developer experience and reliability. Based in Galicia, Spain, Marcos pairs a research-minded telematics background with practical production engineering, often surfacing efficiency gains through scripting and bespoke orchestration.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Telecommunication Engineering Telematics, Master in Telecommunication Engineering Telematics at Universidade de Vigo
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 2 months
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Marcos López - Senior Software Engineer at Datadog