Zach Gottesman
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Gottesman is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building data infrastructure and ML-backed production systems across real estate and consumer platforms. He’s driven end-to-end projects that reduced model error and sped build pipelines—most notably a feature that lowered Opendoor’s offer MAE and a build-time optimization that cut pipeline runs from 45 to ~15 minutes. At Squarespace and Datadog he focused on scalable data infrastructure, and earlier roles at Zillow/Trulia involved large-scale routing and crime-heatmap pipelines using Java, Python, C++, and AWS. Comfortable in both ML and systems work, he combines hands-on engineering with a knack for practical optimizations that improve business metrics. A UC Berkeley CS grad, he also brings unexpected chops from music tech and studio engineering that inform a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMemorial High School
Github Skills (30)
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
machine-learning10
workflow-engine10
apache10
scheduler10
etl10
automation10
dag10
mlops10
airflow10
elt10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zach-overflow/TallowRotter
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
A free audio plugin inspired by a popular boutique guitar pedal
Contributions:30 PRs, 46 pushes, 30 branches in 6 months
pedaltoolboxaudio-pluginpluginguitar
DataDog/airflow
Jun 2025 - Jun 2026
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:49 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
airflowapache-airflow
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