Berzan M
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBerzan M is a software engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in distributed systems and high-performance cloud data ingestion, currently contributing to Snowflake’s Streaming Ingest team in Berlin. He holds CS degrees from TUM and CDTM, blending rigorous academic training with product-focused engineering. His background spans backend and DevOps work—evidenced by notable contributions to the widely used Datadog Agent where he improved Windows GUI behavior, time synchronization, and operational telemetry. He’s worked across startups and research roles, from Solidity and game development to production-grade monitoring and cloud services, showing a rare mix of systems-level curiosity and shipping discipline. Colleagues can expect strong algorithmic thinking paired with practical improvements that boost observability and reliability at scale.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Universitat Pompeu FabraHonors Degree Technology Management, Honors Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
German, English, Spanish, Kurdish, Turkish
Github Skills (10)
go10
devops10
observability9
windows9
monitoring8
cloud-computing8
metric7
distributed-tracing7
logging7
opentelemetry6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 51 reviews, 20 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Berzan's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Datadog Agent's functionality and improving its operational aspects. They implemented changes to the Agent's Windows GUI, increasing timeouts, and also integrated cloud provider NTP servers for improved time synchronization. Furthermore, the user contributed to infrastructure and build process through the inclusion of a backport of a changelog, and tracking forwarder payload sizes, indicating a focus on improving monitoring and operability. Their contributions span across both the application code and system-level configurations, suggesting a combined back-end and DevOps role.
datadogmonitoringgoapm-agentapm-instrumentation
Apodini/corvus
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Corvus has been archived in favor of https://github.com/Apodini/Apodini .
Contributions:1 commit, 27 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 day
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