Peter Kalmakis
Staff Engineer at Datadog
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Kalmakis is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, user-facing distributed systems and real-time services, currently driving technical work at Datadog. His career spans leadership and hands-on roles from launching Xbox One platform services at Microsoft to scaling product and engineering as CTO at Stash and founding Symbi, a roommate-matching startup later acquired. He combines product intuition with backend and telemetry expertise, focusing on software that improves everyday experiences. Based in Chevy Chase, MD, he brings startup founder grit and enterprise engineering rigor to cloud-native observability and platform challenges. Outside work he channels teamwork and strategy into competitive Ultimate Frisbee and fuels creativity with a passion for live music. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of shipping both consumer-facing features and the telemetry/infrastructure that makes them reliable at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Brown UniversityPhillips Academy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
monitoring10
parser10
observability10
faraday10
stackdriver10
distributed-tracing10
router10
opentracing10
apm10
vector10
pmm10
go10
agent10
apm-agent10
dry-rb10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pkalmakis/peterandsimone
Nov 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
reactsimone
pkalmakis/dd-trace-go
Apr 2023 - May 2023
A Go tracing package for Datadog APM
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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