Matthias Veit
Staff Engineer at Datadog
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Veit is a Staff Engineer and co-founder with 12+ years building cloud-native and security-focused platforms, currently splitting his time between Datadog and Fix, the cloud security startup he helped launch. He brings deep distributed-systems and backend expertise from roles at Mesosphere and MOIA, and has contributed core logic to large orchestration projects like Marathon. At Fix he combines product vision with hands-on engineering to build an API-driven cloud asset inventory that makes security automation practical. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has a track record of shipping core API and data-format improvements (including multi-format outputs and NDJSON support) that improve observability and integration. Based in Hamburg with a Dipl.-Ing. in Computer Science from TU Berlin, he blends entrepreneurial experience with operator-scale engineering.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Ing. / Master Computer Science, Dipl. Ing. / Master Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
Github Skills (14)
javas10
json10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
java10
testing10
scala9
yaml9
docker8
dockers8
mesos7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
d2iq-archive/marathon
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 1160 commits, 781 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthias's commits focused on the core logic of the Marathon orchestrator. They implemented changes to the application definition, including enabling dependencies and features. The user was involved in the core code, as they modified the API and the internals. The commits also involved testing and validation of the code.
dockermesosdcos-orchestration-guilddcos
someengineering/fixinventory
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Fix Inventory helps you identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1110 reviews, 581 commits, 1648 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthias contributed to the backend functionality of the project, specifically by adding a text/plain output format, moving code to constants, and making JSON the default output format. They modified the API endpoint by adding the capability to respond with application/x-ndjson, application/json, text/plain, and application/yaml/text/yaml content types based on the request headers. In addition, the user also fixed a bug, where the node data would not be filtered when the request was from the user.
awsazuregcpkubernetesinfrastructure-as-code
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