Benoit Z
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoit Z is a Senior Software Engineer based in Strasbourg with 16 years of experience building polished front-end experiences and improving developer tooling. Currently at Datadog, he has driven UI and logging improvements in the Datadog Browser SDK and shipped a developer-extension feature alongside unit tests to raise product quality. His background includes long tenure at Netvibes and Keymetrics, where he focused on UX-driven documentation and site redesigns—work showcased in contributions to the PM2 documentation site. He also brings strong QA and test-automation skills from contributions to babel-eslint, adding non-regression test suites for complex parsing scenarios. Known for thoughtful UI/UX tweaks that improve navigation and developer ergonomics, he combines pragmatic engineering with attention to detail.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université de Strasbourg
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
css10
typescript10
eslint10
regression-testing10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
test-automation10
responsive-design9
documentation9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/browser-sdk
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Datadog Browser SDK
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2316 reviews, 1114 commits, 1339 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily contributed to the Datadog Browser SDK, focusing on improving the logging and user interface components. Their work included enhancements to the action names and event handling, alongside the implementation of the new "developer extension" feature. This developer was also responsible for adding a few unit tests to improve the quality of the product.
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pm2-hive/pm2-hive.github.io
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Documentation website for PM2
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 17 days
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily contributed to the documentation website for PM2, focusing on UI/UX improvements. They integrated new homepage designs, added features like multiple favicon sizes, adjusted menu behavior and hover effects, and restructured satellite pages like users and contributors. The user also enhanced the documentation by adding links to titles, improving the overall user experience and navigation of the site.
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