Lindsay Kowalick
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLindsay Kowalick is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems across backend and frontend stacks. She has led cross-functional teams at Shopify and Carbon Five to deliver data-heavy interfaces and developer tooling, and drove zero-to-one projects and API work at startups like rift. Lindsay contributes to open-source infrastructure—most notably backend work on the Filecoin Venus full node in Go—bringing distributed systems and storage marketplace experience. Comfortable across Go, Ruby, React and cloud-native tooling, she focuses on pragmatic, testable solutions that improve operational capacity and product quality. With advanced academic training in mathematics (Master’s and PhD studies) she brings rigorous problem-solving and a penchant for thoughtfully engineered software. Colleagues rely on her for turning complex domain requirements into durable, well-tested products.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Computer Science Minor, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Computer Science Minor at Rutgers University
Github Skills (4)
blockchain10
go10
filecoin10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/venus
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Filecoin Full Node Implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 67 PRs, 200 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lindsay primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Filecoin Venus project. Their work included updating the required Go version, implementing checks for failures during chain syncing, and coalescing storage deal stores. They also made changes related to the genesis block and proofs mode configuration, and refactored code to improve unit testing.
filecoingovenuslotus
rkowalick/autobank
Dec 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 5 months
accountingchaseaccounting-softwareledgerentries
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