Guillaume Daix
Senior Engineering Manager at Ekip
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolGuillaume Daix is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Paris with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and engineering organizations, currently leading teams at Datadog. He played a key role in taking Datadog’s Application Security Monitoring from acquisition-stage product to general availability in 12 months, leading a cross-language libraries team covering seven runtimes. A Node.js enthusiast with deep hands-on background in microservices, distributed stacks and observability, he blends technical ownership with people and project management—hiring, career coaching and setting up processes and tooling. He also serves on the board of Ekip, underscoring an interest in product and company-level strategy beyond day-to-day engineering. Notably, he’s repeatedly led multi-language agent and instrumentation efforts, a niche that combines low-level integration work with product-grade reliability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ecole supérieure d'ingénieurs de recherche en matériaux et en InfoTronique (ESIREM)Ingénieur Informatique et système d'information, Ingénierie informatique, Ingénieur Informatique et système d'information, Ingénierie informatique at Université de Technologie de Troyes
English, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
hugo9
datadog9
documentation8
nodejs7
database6
integration-testing6
functional-testing6
javascript6
web-proxy6
blackbox-testing5
authentication5
testing5
mysql5
dm4
orm4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ilorm/connector-knex
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Official ilorm connector build above knex. Connection on every SQL database supported by Knex.
Contributions:4 releases, 19 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 9 months
db2rdbmsmysqlconnectorsql
ilorm/old-monorepo
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
New kind of NodeJS ORM
Contributions:23 PRs, 189 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years
mysqljavascriptnodejsdatabaseorm
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