Alex Barksdale

New York, New York, United States

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Summary

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Alex Barksdale is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with six years of experience building scalable, reliable services and product-focused systems. At Datadog he incubated the company's LLM Observability offering—owning early prototypes, roadmap definition, and onboarding design partners—and previously drove Database Monitoring work that restored explain-plan generation for parameterized Postgres queries and added SQL Server AlwaysOn support. Technically fluent in Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kafka, gRPC, React, and PostgreSQL, he contributes to production telemetry and backend integrations. His open-source contributions to widely used Datadog repos, including improvements to SQL obfuscation and execution-plan analysis, have measurably enhanced privacy and performance monitoring across large fleets.

6 years of coding experience

Github Skills (15)

databases10

go10

observability10

postgresql10

database-administration10

sql10

mysql10

database10

python9

apm-agent9

open-telemetry8

open-telemetry-go8

dockers7

docker7

dockerce7

Programming languages (7)

TypeScriptCSSJavaScriptGoHTMLJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

DataDog/datadog-agent

Jun 2021 - Jan 2023

Main repository for Datadog Agent

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:57 reviews, 34 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 7 months

Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the SQL obfuscation capabilities within the Datadog agent. Their work involved adding support for various SQL database features, including the ability to collect SQL commands and comments. They also improved the obfuscation process by adding options to replace digits and handle temporary tables in SQL Server queries. These changes contribute to improved data privacy and security, and enhance agent functionality.

golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm

DataDog/integrations-core

May 2021 - Jan 2023

Core integrations of the Datadog Agent

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/Administrator

Contributions:131 reviews, 164 commits, 164 PRs in 1 year 8 months

Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the implementation of Postgres 13 support for statement metrics, which involved adding new metrics based on the database version and creating a "disallow" list. They also provided the ability to provide a reason for not having an execution plan. In addition, the user worked on providing MySQL and Postgres no explain plan reasons, as well as the ability to set a reported hostname. These contributions centered around improving the Datadog Agent's integration with both Postgres and MySQL databases, particularly focusing on performance monitoring and execution plan analysis.

datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog

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