Alejandro Huertas is an Engineer Manager at Datadog, where he leads the team behind the company-wide Change Data Capture and data replication platform. His group delivers reliable, low-latency data streams and reproducible sinks on top of Kafka, Postgres, Cassandra and Elasticsearch, enabling product teams to ship features faster and safer. Before Datadog, Alejandro worked as a Senior Cloud Engineer at OpenNebula Systems, building cloud integrations and mentoring engineers on cloud technologies. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from universities in Madrid, and has authored several technical blog posts and talks on cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.