Chenyu Lu
Engineering Manager I at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolChenyu Lu is an engineering manager based in Paris with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and leading teams at Datadog. He progressed from software engineer to manager while shipping observability-focused services and previously architected Ledger’s blockchain explorer handling 10M requests/day and 8TB of data with sub-50ms p95 latency. Skilled in distributed systems, functional programming, and performance tuning, he also improved developer tooling and CI at earlier roles, cutting build and startup times significantly. Comfortable across architecture and algorithms, he pairs hands-on coding experience with mentoring and internal tech advocacy—having initiated and run technical meetups at Ledger. Fluent in multi-cultural, cross-discipline environments, he brings a pragmatic focus on measurable reliability and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Southeast UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (72)
hugo10
documentation10
datadog10
core-library9
linux9
api9
instagram9
shortcuts9
script9
rust8
vte8
ledger8
rest8
opengl8
rest-api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
luchenyuxx/cookietracker
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
luchenyuxx/vimrc
Jan 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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