# Milka (Milo) Piszczek

> Software Engineer at Datadog

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/milka

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer Graduate Intern @ Tecton
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Created Audit Logging system (Kotlin, Kubernetes) for customer actions including recording actions via gRPC, temporary storage in Postgres, delivery to s3, monitoring and alerts (Chronosphere)
- Implemented self-serve consumption service for customers to access utilization data

### Software Engineer II @ Audible, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Integrated Neural Vector Search into Audible on Alexa Elasticsearch. Spearheaded collaborative project with ML Science Team, Alexa ML Team from design, through implementation, experiment, and launch
- Helped drive institutional transition to AWS and infrastructure as code including tech talks to Audible Tech Org, Amazon DevCon, and Boston AWS Usergroup

### Software Engineer I @ Audible, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area
- Led migration of data transformation service (Java) from on-prem to AWS Elastic Container Service. Set up service from scratch including creating and optimizing infrastructure (Typescript), integration testing, and monitoring
- Optimized and maintained AWS Elasticsearch Clusters for live traffic and indexing

### EECS Lab Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, MA
6.031 - Software Construction - Spring 2019
6.00 - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming - Fall 2017
6.01 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Robotics) - Spring 2017
6.s08 - A Brief Introduction to Python - January 2017

### Software Development Itern @ Audible, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA

### Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Lab for Quantitative Medicine @ Massachusetts General Hospital
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA

### Summer Games Intern @ Booz Allen Hamilton
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Our team designed, prototype, and market a comprehensive navigation tool for people who are blind. Won 1st place in the Booz Allen Summer Games.

### Americorps VISTA @ FIRST
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Volunteer Management
- Event Planning
- Grant writing
- Social Media
- Team Mentorship and Support

### Summer Intern @ National Institutes of Health
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
ITC, Sedimentation Velocity Analytical Ultracentrifugation 

Poster Title: "Investigating the Oligometric State of Fluorescent Proteins by Sedimentation Velocity Analytical Ultracentrifugation"

### Summer Volunteer @ Childrens National Medical Center
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Interacting with and entertaining patients


## Education
### Masters of Engineering in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and B.S. in Literature in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
Richard Montgomery High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/milka-milo-piszczek-745ab26b

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Source: https://flows.cv/milka
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Last updated: 2026-03-28