Lewis Soto
Builder at Purenix
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLewis Soto is a seasoned software engineer and builder with 10 years of experience designing integrations, middleware, and cloud-native systems, currently creating an AI-powered job search coaching platform. He brings a rare blend of customer-facing technical account management and deep backend/DevOps chops from roles at Datadog and Pantheon Data, including modernizing federal systems to AWS GovCloud under Secret Clearance. His open-source contributions to Datadog integrations improved monitoring for RabbitMQ, Postfix, Mesos, and SNMP devices—practical work that enhanced observability for large-scale operations. Comfortable across TypeScript, Python, microservices, and systems integration, he also authored an open-source Next.js/TypeScript network diagnostics tool to simplify troubleshooting. Based in New Jersey, Lewis pairs strong communication and mentoring skills with hands-on engineering, often surfacing subtle operational improvements that help teams move faster.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors, Computer Science at Rutgers University–NewarkAssociate's degree, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician at Technical Career Institutes
Github Skills (15)
rabbitmq10
datadog10
snmpd10
snmp10
python10
integrations10
http9
monitoring9
mesos9
devops8
docker6
yaml6
dockers6
postgresql4
go3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 15 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lewis primarily focused on enhancing monitoring capabilities and improving the functionality of existing integrations. Their work included adding metrics related to RabbitMQ bindings, improving the Postfix check with the `postqueue` option, adding debug logs and better error messages for Mesos integration, and adding support for client authentication to an HTTP check for certificate expiration. They also updated the metadata command with new units and added a Meraki profile to the SNMP checks.
datadogdatadog-agentddintegrations
ls339/OpenDOF-End-To-End-Security-Interface
Oct 2015 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 7 months
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