Nicholas Canzoneri
Staff Engineer at Datadog
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Canzoneri is a Staff Engineer with 14 years building and optimizing infrastructure and platform tooling, currently focused on databases at Datadog. He specializes in making engineering teams more productive through automation, observability, and incident response practices, and has deep hands-on experience migrating large fleets and systems with zero downtime. His background spans major platform roles at GitHub and Postmark where he led server performance tuning, system configuration optimization, and cloud-to-on-prem transitions. Comfortable shipping in Go, he builds robust tooling that scales across teams and operational domains. Based in the Greater Philadelphia area, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for operational reliability and cross-team process improvements that quietly reduce toil. An unusual strength is translating large-scale migration and performance investigations into repeatable automation and monitoring workflows that persist long after projects end.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Drexel University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
elasticsearch10
rest10
search-engine10
java10
restful10
google-maps9
ruby-client9
visual-studio9
clustering9
msbuild9
git9
go9
knn9
version-control9
nest8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nickcanz/elasticsearch
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 10 months
typesenserestfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearch
nickcanz/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 3 months
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