Alex Charrier
Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlex Charrier is a Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog in Paris with 9 years of experience building and scaling backend systems for observability and Software Delivery products. He leads multiple engineering managers and 17+ engineers while owning backend systems, billing, and incident response for the Software Delivery portfolio, and has driven product growth by launching features like Deployment Gates and DORA Metrics to expand ARR. A hands-on former backend engineer, he contributed to Datadog’s open-source Python APM client (dd-trace-py), improving Celery integration, DB instrumentation, and testing. He pairs technical authority with deliberate leadership development, shifting operational ownership to empower managers and prepare teams for AI-augmented workflows. Known for integrating AI agents and LLMs into product surfaces, he blends product-facing ownership with deep systems reliability expertise.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at CentraleSupélecIntensive preparation courses, Intensive preparation courses at Lycée Eugène Livet
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
datadog10
celery10
trace10
tracer10
python10
mysql10
apm10
http-request9
debug8
debugging8
error-log8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-py
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Datadog Python APM Client
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Datadog Python APM client by fixing typos in documentation and resolving issues related to Celery integration. They implemented database-related fixes, adding missing types and pin forwarding for various database integrations like MySQL and PyMySQL. Additionally, the user added regression tests and made improvements to the `ddtrace-run` command and request patching.
profilingpythonapm-clientapmsecurity
alxch-/alex-perso
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 5 months
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