Benoit Perrot
Director Of Engineering at Datadog
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolBenoit Perrot is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building and scaling high-performance distributed systems, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Datadog after leading core Search and AI platform teams at Algolia. He combines deep theoretical computer science expertise with hands-on experience in systems architecture, Kubernetes, Go, and SRE practices to push limits of speed, scalability and reliability. Benoit excels at translating product and technical strategy into execution, having managed cross-functional organizations including SRE and Data teams and overseen both bare-metal and cloud infrastructures. A pragmatic coach, he guides engineering managers through uncertainty to unlock their potential and improve delivery and incident response. His background ranges from low-level geometry and simulation work at Dassault Systèmes to creating continuous deployment practices at Criteo, reflecting a rare blend of research-grade rigor and production-grade operational experience.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
French, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (63)
kubernetes10
docker10
algolia10
controller10
widgets10
api-client10
java10
scheduling10
typesense10
go10
api10
java-api10
nginx10
kubernetes-monitoring9
experiences9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BenoitPerrot/oce
May 2015 - May 2018
Modernizing Fork of the Open CASCADE Community Edition Library
Contributions:96 pushes, 55 branches in 3 years
cascadecommunity-edition
BenoitPerrot/whitehole-app
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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