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Marcus Reeves
Senior Software Engineer · Distributed systems
[email protected] · +1 415 555 0247 · Remote (USA, Pacific Time) · marcusreeves.dev · linkedin.com/in/marcusreeves · github.com/marcusreeves
Summary
Backend engineer with 9 years building high-throughput services at observability and fintech companies. Strong on distributed systems, query performance, and team scaling. Currently focused on streaming ingestion pipelines that handle 4M events/sec at peak.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Datadog
Mar 2021 – Present
Remote
  • Re-architected the metrics ingestion pipeline to handle 4M events/sec peak, reducing p99 latency 35%.
  • Migrated 14 services from Kafka to Pulsar with zero data loss; coordinated across 6 teams.
  • Authored the team's on-call runbook and reduced page volume 60% over two quarters.
Software Engineer II, Brex
Aug 2018 – Feb 2021
San Francisco, CA
  • Built the transaction-categorization service in Go; processes 12M transactions/day.
  • Led a quarter-long effort to reduce p95 API latency from 480ms to 110ms.
  • Mentored 3 new grads; established a structured onboarding plan now used company-wide.
Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Jun 2015 – Jul 2018
San Francisco, CA
  • Contributed to the Workers runtime; shipped the initial KV storage write path.
  • Built internal tooling to inspect edge cache state, reducing debug time for SREs by ~80%.
Education
University of Washington — BS Computer Science 2011 – 2015
Skills
Languages: Go, Python, Rust, TypeScript, SQL
Infrastructure: Kafka, Pulsar, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform
Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate