Summary
Nicholas Matuzita Mizoguchi is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across startups and large tech firms, currently at Datadog in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He progressed from software engineer to engineering manager and back to senior engineer at Datadog, demonstrating both hands-on delivery and people leadership in observability and cloud-native contexts. Earlier roles include SDE at Amazon and co-founding MindMiners, where he combined product thinking with technical ownership. He has research and internship experience from MIT Media Lab and CSAIL, reflecting a strong foundation in experimental and academic environments. Comfortable across backend, distributed systems and mobile engineering, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset tempered by scaled-operations experience. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he has navigated both founding a startup and leading engineering teams at a major SaaS observability company, blending scrappy problem-solving with rigorous production practices.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary School, Elementary School at Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner
Undegraduate (Special Student) Computer Engineering, Undegraduate (Special Student) Computer Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Undergraduate (Special Student) Computer Engineering, Undergraduate (Special Student) Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
High School, High School at Colégio ETAPA
Portuguese, English