Robert Tandy
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Hudson, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Tandy is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-scale, full-stack systems and leading architecture and R&D efforts. He has driven graph storage and distributed database designs at Twitter supporting hundreds of millions of QPS and trillions of rows, and now applies that systems expertise at Datadog. Earlier roles include leading the migration of Findaway’s audio platform to cloud-native SaaS, authoring core DRM and delivery services, and squeezing production-grade performance from embedded Linux devices. Comfortable from kernel drivers to Kubernetes and Vitess, he blends deep low-level engineering with product-minded architecture. Based in Hudson, Ohio, he pairs a physics-trained analytical mindset (Yale M.S.) with a long history of cross-functional leadership and hands-on coding.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Physics and Applied Physics Departments, M.S., Physics and Applied Physics Departments at Yale UniversityB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Kent State University
Github Skills (46)
python10
dataframe10
sql10
python-bindings10
rust10
hugo9
sql-query9
big-data9
olap9
documentation9
datadog9
query-engine9
distributed-computing7
parquet7
shell6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robtandy/dotfiles
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
robtandy/datafusion-ray
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Apache DataFusion Ray
Contributions:38 PRs, 184 pushes, 16 branches in 3 months
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