Eric Mountain
Staff Engineer at Datadog
Grasse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Mountain is a Staff Engineer with 11+ years of cloud-native and systems engineering experience, currently shaping Kubernetes and Linux reliability at Datadog. He blends architecture and hands-on coding (Go, Python) with deep troubleshooting across the stack, often surfacing practical solutions that come from his long-term exposure to both legacy enterprise systems and modern container ecosystems. Previously a technical lead at Amadeus, he guided OpenShift/Kubernetes initiatives and led middleware and transaction-framework projects that migrated critical fare-search infrastructure off mainframes. An active contributor to high-profile open-source work—such as improving tests and build automation for the Moby project—he brings real-world expertise in container security, namespaces, and CI/CD resilience. Based in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and grounded in an Imperial College MSc and Math BS, he pairs rigorous academic training with a pragmatic, Jack-of-all-trades approach to infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Foundations of Advanced Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Foundations of Advanced Information Technology at Imperial College LondonBaccalauréat C (sciences), Mention bien, Baccalauréat C (sciences), Mention bien at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de Londres
English, French
Github Skills (13)
testing10
automation10
container10
automations10
go10
docker10
dockers10
userspace9
golang9
build-system9
namespaces9
seccomp8
debian7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moby/moby
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the testing and build processes within the Moby project. They added and modified tests related to user namespaces, capabilities, and seccomp profiles. Their work also included refactoring tests to use more current versions of the base images and modifying build processes, suggesting expertise in automation, testing, and the project's infrastructure. They also addressed an issue related to the storage and handling of capabilities in the image building process within a user-namespaced container.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
EricMountain/deep-freeze
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Incremental file backups to S3
Contributions:43 PRs, 78 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year
incrementalaws-s3awsbackupsbackup
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