Florian Veaux
Team Lead, Engineering at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Veaux is a French engineering leader with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native monitoring systems, currently leading an engineering team at Datadog. He rose through technical roles at Datadog from intern to Team Lead, contributing significantly to the datadog-agent and integrations repositories—work that spans backend Go development, CI/CD automation, and end-to-end testing for metrics integrations like MySQL and OpenMetrics. Comfortable at the intersection of DevOps and backend engineering, he has implemented integration commands, systemd metadata collection, and robust pipeline tooling to improve release quality. Trained at MINES ParisTech with prior research in constrained optimization at Bosch, he combines analytical rigor with practical production experience on large-scale distributed systems. Social and team-oriented, Florian enjoys adapting to new technologies and environments and prefers collaborative approaches that elevate team output. An often-overlooked thread in his profile is his early exposure to both blue-collar operational work and intensive teaching, which informs a pragmatic, user-focused mindset in engineering decisions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
CPGE PSI, Mathématiques, Physique et Sciences Industrielles pour l'Ingénieur, CPGE PSI, Mathématiques, Physique et Sciences Industrielles pour l'Ingénieur at Lycée ChaptalMaster’s Degree in Science and Executive Engineering, Master’s Degree in Science and Executive Engineering at MINES ParisTech
French, English, German
Github Skills (24)
apim10
docker10
python10
gitlab-ci10
api-design10
mysql10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
gitlab10
go10
api10
metric10
integration-testing10
observability9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:942 reviews, 820 commits, 1173 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the testing and development of the MySQL and OpenMetrics integrations for the Datadog Agent. Their work included adding end-to-end (e2e) tests for specific MySQL versions, indicating familiarity with database testing. The user also added e2e tests for the OpenMetrics integration demonstrating an ability to test a variety of metrics. Additionally, the user made contributions to the agent's testing framework, including the integration of specific test cases.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
DataDog/integrations-extras
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 77 commits, 57 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Florian's primary contributions revolve around enhancing and maintaining the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for the integrations-extras repository. Their commits include fixing tests, merging branches, configuring Azure pipelines, and setting up signing and build processes. These changes demonstrate a focus on automating builds, testing, and releases, ensuring the project's quality and facilitating efficient deployments.
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