Alexandre Menasria
Software Engineer at Mistral AI
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Menasria is a software engineer with seven years of experience building and hardening cloud-native tooling, currently contributing to Mistral AI after several impactful roles at Datadog. He has strong back-end and DevOps chops, demonstrated by significant open-source contributions to Datadog projects—improving build systems, cross-compilation (notably M1 support), OTLP troubleshooting, and packaging/licensing hygiene. Based in Paris with an engineering degree from Centrale Méditerranée, he blends pragmatic systems engineering with open-source stewardship, focusing on reliable builds and deployment pipelines. Colleagues rely on him to untangle thorny build and dependency issues that block shipping, a skill reflected across high-profile repos used widely in observability stacks.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Computer Engineering, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Computer Engineering at Centrale Méditerranée
Github Skills (23)
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
package-management9
yum9
git-repository9
go9
repo-management9
otel9
repository-pattern9
management9
docker8
ruby8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:979 reviews, 43 commits, 344 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent, focusing on improving the build process and troubleshooting OTLP pipeline issues. Their work included enhancing the agent's cross-compilation capabilities for Mac M1 systems, adding support messages for M1 Agent building, and improving the Agent's OTLP section status for troubleshooting. Additionally, the user fixed errors related to running `inv pipeline.run` and made updates to the Agent's dependencies. The user also made changes to the Agent's build and deployment processes.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/chef-datadog
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Chef cookbook for Datadog Agent & Integrations
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 15 reviews, 20 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on improving the project's infrastructure and build processes. Their contributions include updating the agent version determination, releasing new versions, and enhancing the licensing for open-source compliance. Furthermore, the user removed unnecessary files and packages during the agent removal process, while also refactoring and cleaning up old rpm keys. They also addressed dependency issues related to Chef handler with the latest Chef versions.
datadog-agentcookbookagentintegrationschef-resource
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