Emanuele Palazzetti
Director Of Engineering at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolEmanuele Palazzetti is a Director of Engineering based in Paris with 14 years of hands-on experience building and shipping production-grade systems, primarily in Python and Go. He rose through engineering and leadership roles at Datadog, contributing to core APM tracing libraries and leading teams that bridge library instrumentation with scalable backend services. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs software craftsmanship with systems-operational thinking—"code is not software until it’s deployed"—influencing designs toward deployability, observability, and maintainability. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and core tracing logic in well-known projects such as django-oauth-toolkit and Datadog’s dd-trace libraries. He combines academic grounding in computer science and information security with practical experience in infrastructure automation (Packer, Ansible, Docker) and front-end work, and regularly shares learnings at technical conferences. Outside work he builds IoT projects and treks, reflecting a mix of curiosity for embedded systems and a taste for hands-on problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree in Computer science Information security, Master degree in Computer science Information security at Università degli Studi di PerugiaIstituto Tecnico Commerciale "Aldo Capitini"
Italian, English, French
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Github Skills (19)
tracer10
bootstrap10
django10
distributed-tracing10
opentracing10
html-template10
ruby10
go10
bootstra10
trace10
apm9
apidoc9
css9
api9
http8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-rb
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
Datadog Tracing Ruby Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 470 commits, 201 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Emanuele focused on the development of the Datadog Tracing Ruby Client. Their contributions primarily centered around core library structure and API enhancements. The user implemented the `Datadog::VERSION` module, namespaced the library, and performed various linting tasks to ensure code quality. The user also refactored the Tracer, Span and Writer class for better code readability and to follow the ruby community style guide.
apmtracingruby-clientrubydatadog-tracing
DataDog/dd-trace-go
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Datadog Go Library including APM tracing, profiling, and security monitoring.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 154 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Emanuele contributed to the core logic of the `dd-trace-go` library, focusing on the `tracer` package. They implemented and refactored the `Span` struct, adding error handling and metric functionality. Furthermore, the user worked on the foundation of the OpenTracing API, creating methods for creating and propagating spans and implementing integration with an HTTP transport for sending traces.
golangapmtracingdatadog-apmopentracing
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