Paul Hortiatis
Director Of Engineering at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Hortiatis is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native operations and developer teams, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Datadog in New York. His career spans hands-on architecture, DevOps and systems engineering leadership across fast-moving startups and growth-stage companies such as Shapeways and ConnectEDU, where he led cloud migrations, multi-tenant platforms, and single sign-on architectures. Known for progressing from individual contributor roles to director-level management, he blends technical rigor with people management—running in-house and offshore teams and delivering reliable production systems. He has a strong practical background in infrastructure, HA Linux clusters, MySQL operations and disaster recovery, and a knack for translating complex requirements into maintainable, scalable solutions. Notably, he has repeatedly owned end-to-end migrations and operational transformations, demonstrating an uncommon mix of strategic planning and executional detail.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (70)
integrations10
lvgl10
agent10
datadog10
wifi10
monitoring9
hue9
custom-component9
migration-tool9
ospf9
infrared9
dmx5129
dd9
bgp8
puppet8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ChairmanTubeAmp/templogger
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
A NodeMCU (ESP8266) based temperature and humidity logger which submits metrics to Datadog.
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 6 months
nodemcu-esp8266humidity-loggerloggerhumidityesp8266
EmberFramework/EmberFramework-Core
Mar 2011 - May 2014
Contributions:32 commits in 3 years 2 months
phpframeworkmvcphp-webweb-development
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