Anton Ippolitov
Senior Software Engineer (Kubernetes Networking) at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAnton Ippolitov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and data platforms, currently focused on Kubernetes networking at Datadog. Over six years at Datadog he moved from hands-on data engineering to leading teams and shipping self-service platforms for Apache Flink, Spark-on-Kubernetes migrations, and CI/CD/infra automation. He combines technical leadership and people management with deep operational expertise—implementing SLOs, disaster planning, and cost-efficient Cilium-based networking for large-scale environments. An active contributor to the Cilium project, his work spans code, docs, and operational improvements (including eBPF-related features and clustermesh tooling), reflecting a practical focus on observability and reliability. Trained in computer science at UTC and with coursework at UIUC, he brings a systems-oriented mindset proven by cross-cloud migrations, GovCloud compliance projects, and performance-driven platform rewrites.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignEngineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)Baccalauréat série S, Baccalauréat série S at Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
French, Russian, English, German, Italian
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
logging10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
bpf10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
metric9
container9
cloud-infrastructure9
cni9
security8
documentation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 reviews, 27 PRs, 118 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Anton contributed to documentation updates, metric descriptions, and code standardization. They implemented logging improvements and added functionality for the "Double Write" identity allocation mode, involving both KVStore and CRDs. Furthermore, the user updated CNI plugin versions and added logging options for the clustermesh-apiserver, indicating a focus on networking and operational aspects of the project. The contributions show expertise across multiple areas.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
antonipp/spark
Feb 2021 - Apr 2023
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:14 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
analyticsdata-processingapachebig-dataspark
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