# Eli Schiff

> Senior Software Engineer at Datadog

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

Software engineer at Datadog. Writing Apache Spark code to power Datadog's Cloud Cost Management product. Helping companies understand and optimize their AWS, Azure, and GCP bills.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Developing tools used to understand, investigate, and reduce cloud spend using generative AI agents and LLMs

### Software Engineer 2 (Cloud Cost Management) @ Datadog
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Writing Apache Spark code to power Datadog's Cloud Cost Management product. Helping companies understand and optimize their AWS, Azure, and GCP bills. 
https://www.datadoghq.com/product/cloud-cost-management/

Reduced processing job latency by 50% saving $800k a year
Lead rearchitecture of AWS EKS container cost monitoring pipeline, transforming it into a multi cloud offering supporting Azure AKS and GCP GKE

Mentored multiple new hires

### Software Engineer 2 (Data Engineering Infrastructure) @ Datadog
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Promoted early
Saved over 1 million dollars a year through optimization of cloud and Kubernetes resource usage
Developed Terraform modules manage all Apache Spark cloud permissions across Datadog
Mentoring new hire on the team

### Software Engineer (Data Engineering Infrastructure) @ Datadog
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Developing infrastructure, libraries, and tooling used by data engineers at Datadog to interface with AWS, GCP, and Azure to run Apache Spark and Apache Flink applications on Kubernetes as well as using AWS EMR and GCP Dataproc

### Software Engineering Intern @ Datadog
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
Optimized React front end code to improve loading times and responsiveness of components
Refactored python flask api to power a new cross cloud apache spark monitoring website

### Data Structures Undergraduate TA @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Troy, NY
Run weekly labs and office hours to assist students in learning C++ and Data Structures

### Software Engineering Intern @ Coursedog
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
Web development intern using Vue.js, Node, Javascript, Python
Increased test coverage using the Jest unit testing framework as well as Cypress E2E tests
Designed and wrote a Python script used to collect emails and names for marketing purposes
Developed new pages and features using Vue.js including a custom form similar to Google Forms
Assisted in preparation for application and then acceptance into the Y Combinator Incubator

### Software Engineering Intern @ Optum
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston
Developed Python program to monitor file changes on a 150tb Hadoop Cluster to assist with data governance
Implemented a Python pipeline to verify files were successfully migrated across clusters
Awarded first place in a office-wide hackathon for the development of an API to simplify access to Individual Health Records


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

### Trinity School, NYC


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elihschiff
- GitHub: https://github.com/elihschiff

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Last updated: 2026-03-30