Damien Mehala
Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Mehala is a pragmatic software engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience and a strong focus on C/C++ and Python, mostly in finance and observability. He has driven high-impact projects at Datadog—accelerating APM adoption through zero-code auto-instrumentation and shipping cross-platform native and web-server instrumentation that unlocked multimillion-dollar ARR deals. Prior roles at Lumen, Murex and NeoXam show deep expertise in high-throughput, low-latency systems, API design, testing automation and migrating large codebases from dynamic to native languages. Damien pairs systems-level thinking (binary instrumentation, service discovery, actor-based models) with practical delivery: CI/CD automation, E2E testing, and mentoring. He’s an experimenter who prototypes across languages (including Rust via C FFI) to extend existing platforms rather than rewrite them, reflecting a bias for pragmatic, interoperable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1 & 2, Informatique, Master 1 & 2, Informatique at Université Paris 13
French, English, créole et pidgin, basés sur le français
Github Skills (97)
hugo10
controller10
distributed-tracing10
windows10
proxy10
accelerator10
vim-plugin10
security10
vim10
lua10
profiling10
nginx-module10
opentelemetry10
nvim10
ingress-nginx10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DamiX/Mandelbrot_Set
Apr 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
dmehala/Robot
Apr 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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