About Me

Hi! I’m Attila. I work in software.

I’m currently a Staff Software Engineer at Datadog. I used to be a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Twitter (emphatically not X), and Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle in the Java LangTools team. I worked at some less known places too.

I most often work on either distributed systems, or language runtimes and compilers. Usually not both at the same time, but there was once a database startup where it happened.

Open Source work

My notable Open Source involvements in the past were:

• Apache FreeMarker template engine
• Mozilla Rhino, a JavaScript runtime on the JVM;
• OpenJDK Nashorn, yet another JavaScript runtime on the JVM (do you sense a pattern?) I keep maintaining this one even today. I also contribute spottily to OpenJDK, and lately a bit to Node.js as well.

Some of the work I do in my current employment at Datadog happens in Open Source software too, notably bits of Datadog’s profiler library for Node.js in pprof-nodejs, pprof-format and dd-trace-js repositories.

Get in Touch

I’m attila.04 on Signal.