Ofek Lev
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Riverside, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOfek Lev is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining robust backend systems, currently driving engineering at Datadog. He specializes in Python-powered APIs, observability integrations, and developer tooling—contributing to flagship projects like datadog-agent, setuptools, and the Stripe Python client. His open-source work spans cryptography, supply-chain security (in-toto), and performance tooling, showing both low-level crypto experience and practical systems engineering. At Datadog he has moved from individual contributor to staff level, implementing integrations, resilient agent features (circuit breakers, backoff), and build/refactor improvements. He also maintains a long-running freelance practice producing cloud APIs and Selenium test suites, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and testability. Based in Riverside, Maryland, he pairs standards work (PEPs, packaging metadata) with hands-on code contributions—an engineer who cares about both developer experience and production-grade observability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English, French
Github Skills (70)
ec10
apim10
benchmark10
python10
testing10
bitcoins10
security10
twisted10
backend10
crypto10
performance-monitor10
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
chain10
api10
sdk10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/hatch
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Modern, extensible Python project management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:153 releases, 262 reviews, 1951 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ofek primarily contributed to the Python-based project management tool, Hatch, by making changes related to build hooks and environment configuration. They refactored code for builder configuration and implemented features for better handling of dependencies. Furthermore, they updated code to support various Python distribution scenarios and the inclusion of a system for installing packages.
pythonpippackagingpluginsetuptools
ofek/bit
Nov 2016 - Dec 2021
Bitcoin made easy.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 308 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ofek primarily contributed to the core functionality of the "bit" library. They wrote code for converting private keys into different formats (WIF, PEM, DER, etc.), as well as implementing address derivation. Additionally, the user implemented several API backends and unit tests to support the library. Their work focused on Bitcoin-related cryptographic functions and utility operations.
paymentspythoncryptocurrencybitcoincryptocurrencies
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