Benoit Ruiz
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
France
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Top SchoolBenoit Ruiz is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems and developer tooling, now at Datadog. He blends practical engineering with mentorship and hiring experience, having improved CI stability, led migrations, and introduced authentication and compliance solutions across Synthetics and Private Location infrastructure. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks (TypeScript, Scala, Node.js, Kubernetes, gRPC, Docker), he has led large migrations (SDK modernizations) and reduced operational costs through smarter monitoring and sampling. An advocate for documentation and functional programming, he contributes clear examples to prominent open-source TypeScript utilities like ts-toolbelt, helping make complex type-level APIs more accessible. Based in France, he’s known for a pragmatic, teaching-focused approach that emphasizes onboarding and long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science and Management, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science and Management at Polytech MontpellierBaccalauréat S, Baccalauréat S at Lycée Henri IVDUT Computer Science, DUT Computer Science at IUT Montpellier
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
type-checking10
typescripts10
type-check10
typescript-types10
documentation10
type-system9
html6
css6
javascript6
event-handling6
jquery6
angular6
angularjs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
millsp/ts-toolbelt
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
👷 TypeScript's largest type utility library
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benoit's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the documentation of the `ts-toolbelt` library. They added examples to the documentation for various utility types, including `A.Clean`, `A.Kind`, `A.Promisable`, `A.Promise`, `C.Class`, `C.Parameters`, `F.UnCurry`, and types in the `L` namespace like `L.Append`, `L.Assign`, `L.At`, `L.AtLeast`, `L.Compulsory`, `L.CompulsoryKeys`, and `L.Concat`. These changes involved adding code snippets and usage examples to clarify the functionality of each type utility.
type-safetydynamic-typestypescript-libraryutilityfp-ts
ruizb/glossary-typescript
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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