Florent Espanet
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
France
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Top SchoolFlorent Espanet is a Staff Software Engineer based in France with 12 years of experience designing and scaling distributed backend systems, currently focusing on large-scale security platforms at Datadog. He architects reliable, high-performance pipelines that handle billions of security findings and led a cross-team migration of 1.5B+ live vulnerabilities while enabling 10x traffic growth with strict latency targets. Previously he scaled backend teams and services at LumApps and optimized product performance and algorithms at Back Market, combining hands-on engineering with people and platform ownership. Known for centralizing lifecycle logic across multiple security finding types, he blends deep system design with pragmatic execution and cross-team coordination. An early career background in operational tooling and automation informs his focus on developer experience and robust, maintainable architectures.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
French, English, Norwegian, German
Stackoverflow
471reputation
156kreached
11answers
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Github Skills (172)
python10
api-client10
distributed-tracing10
python-client10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
profiling10
rest-api10
openapi10
monitoring10
client-library10
twitter10
api10
sdk10
rest10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
volnt/volnt.github.io
Mar 2015 - Mar 2022
Personal website.
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 1 month
reactnextjs
volnt/gravity
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
2D Universe simulation using C++ & SFML.
Contributions:42 commits, 13 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 month
universecppsimulationopenglsfml
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