# Adam Blair

> Senior Software Developer at Datadog

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adamblair

Senior Software Engineer with a passion for clean Python code and using whatever tech is necessary to get the job done. I am proficient in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Scala, Java, Node, React and have some C# and C++.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2021 – Present | New York, United States
Ensured Reliability at Scale: Managed Datadog’s multi-tenant cloud infrastructure spanning hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions and cloud providers
Ensured high availability and low-latency performance of customer-facing services, supporting a platform that processes tens of trillions of events per day
Infrastructure as Code & Clean Automation: Developed and shipped well-documented automation code (Go, Python, and Bash) to streamline operations in complex production environments. Leveraged Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform and Ansible to provision and configure systems, in line with Datadog’s tech stack (e.g. building systems in Go/Python on Kubernetes in multi-cloud environments.
These efforts improved consistency and reduced manual intervention across deployments.
Chaos Engineering & Best Practices: Brought structure to ambiguous challenges by introducing reliability best practices and tools. Integrated chaos engineering experiments into the development lifecycle to proactively identify weaknesses.
Technologies: Kubernetes k8s, Terraform, Ansible, Go, Python, Bash, Datadog Observability Stack, AWS/GCP/Azure (multi-cloud), CI/CD & GitOps, Distributed Systems Monitoring, Linux Systems Administration.

### Software Engineer @ Bloomberg
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Developer @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Wayfair
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
New York University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adam-blair-39b112297

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Last updated: 2026-03-22