Alexandre Choura
Software Engineer II at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Choura is a Software Engineer II at Datadog in Paris with seven years of experience building high-performance observability and APM tooling. He has driven key OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing work—pioneering PHP tracer support and improving CI reliability from 30% to 80%—and contributed to the dd-trace-php 1.0 release and integrations across multiple frameworks. Comfortable across full-stack and backend systems, he has implemented operational automation with SAP APIs and geospatial visualizations, demonstrating a blend of pragmatic engineering and customer-facing troubleshooting. Known for shipping measurable performance improvements and establishing micro/macro benchmarks, he pairs rigorous engineering with an open-source mindset. Trained in computer science in both France and the US, he brings cross-cultural perspective to large-scale observability challenges.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at ENSEIRB-MATMECAUniversity of California Santa CruzPreparatory School, Preparatory School at La Prépa des INPHigh School Diploma Science (specialization Mathematics), High School Diploma Science (specialization Mathematics) at Lycée Camille Jullian
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (50)
debugging10
hugo10
javascript10
observability10
python10
opentracing10
functional-testing10
apm10
security10
php10
profiling10
datadog10
nodejs10
documentation10
integration-testing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PROFeNoM/Codewars
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Python kata done on codewars.
Contributions:2 PRs, 505 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
kata-pythonpythonkata
PROFeNoM/Othello
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
The goal of the project is to program the "Othello/Reversi" game where two people can play together (on the same computer) or alone against an AI.
Contributions:118 commits, 28 PRs, 122 pushes in 3 months
ai
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