David Benque is a senior software engineer and infrastructure expert with over 20 years of experience building and operating large distributed systems, now focused on compute orchestration and platform resilience at Datadog. Formerly a Senior Expert and manager at Amadeus, he led PaaS transformations and helped develop an in-house orchestrator (MAG) while driving the company’s migration to Kubernetes/OpenShift. Proficient in Go, C++, Python and systems monitoring, he specializes in workload placement, resource provisioning and self-healing platforms at scale. A graduate of Ecole nationale supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, he blends hands-on engineering with leadership experience and a pragmatic approach to production reliability. Notably, he pairs deep middleware and orchestration knowledge from telecom/airline-scale systems with current cloud-native compute layer work.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Generaliste - Master Grade, Ingénieur Generaliste - Master Grade at Ecole nationale supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
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David Benque - Senior Software Engineer at Datadog