Zarir Hamza
South Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZarir Hamza is a systems-oriented software engineer with 7 years of experience building distributed, low-latency services and observability pipelines across cloud providers. At Datadog he leads OpenTelemetry efforts for serverless APM across AWS, GCP, and Azure, driving multi-cloud tracing architecture and org-wide metric remapping that preserves fidelity between Datadog and OpenTelemetry. As a founding engineer at GameGrid he designed a real-time gaming platform (Flutter + Go + AWS) that synchronizes live game state for concurrent users, and earlier scaled Knowt’s backend to 100K+ users. He combines a pragmatic focus on performance and reliability with a developer-experience mindset, often working where small changes have large-scale impact. He contributes to prominent open-source tracing tooling—adding span.kind tags and improving test coverage in Datadog’s dd-trace-rb client—reflecting deep experience across Go, Ruby, Java, and Python tracers. Based in New Jersey and trained in computer science and mathematics at Rutgers, he thrives on messy, concurrent systems problems that demand engineering judgment.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics at Rutgers University–New BrunswickMiddlesex County Vocational Academy Math Science &Engineering TechnProgram in Algorithmic and Combinatorial Thinking, Program in Algorithmic and Combinatorial Thinking at Princeton University
Github Skills (11)
distributed-tracing10
datadog10
rack10
trace10
tracer10
mongodb10
redis10
grpc10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-rb
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Datadog Tracing Ruby Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 21 commits, 58 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Zarir's contributions focused on enhancing the Datadog tracing Ruby client by adding and modifying tags related to span kinds within various integrations. They added `span.kind` tags for server and client roles in gRPC, MongoDB, Redis, and Rack integrations to improve distributed tracing. Furthermore, the user corrected and updated various test specs to accurately reflect the implemented changes. They also updated the code to reflect changes in the underlying libraries.
apmtracingruby-clientrubydatadog-tracing
zarirhamza/Auto_Register_Rutgers
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:11 commits in 7 months
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