Pavlos Rontidis
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPavlos Rontidis is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building mission-critical backend and middleware systems and is currently contributing at Datadog. He is proficient in C++ and a Rust enthusiast, now focusing on system architecture and leading new projects from design through production. His career includes impactful roles at Dropbox, Google, and Bloomberg where he delivered scalable, reliability-focused services. An active open-source contributor to vectordotdev/vector, he improved the VRL web playground, added compile-time boolean checks for conditions, and refactored code to separate handwritten and generated files for better maintainability — demonstrating a practical emphasis on correctness and long-term code health. He holds engineering degrees from Polytechnion Kritis and Imperial College London.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Imperial College LondonDiploma (5-year program), Diploma (5-year program) at Polytechnion Kritis
Greek, English
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Github Skills (14)
json-parser10
json10
jsonparser10
json-p10
stream-processing10
observability10
rust10
parsing10
refactor9
refactorings9
refactoring9
documentations8
documentation8
buildr8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vectordotdev/vector
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1176 reviews, 864 PRs, 1039 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Pavlos primarily contributed to improving the Vector Remap Language (VRL) web playground by addressing JSON parsing errors and separating handwritten and generated files for better organization. They also enhanced the VRL by checking the return type of conditions at compile time, ensuring that they return a boolean value. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring the codebase to utilize new lookup code for various schema components, including message, host, and metadata keys.
stream-processingeventspipelinerustdata-observability
vectordotdev/vrl
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Vector Remap Language
Contributions:599 reviews, 500 PRs, 281 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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