Guillaume Loetscher
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillaume Loetscher is an engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on DevOps and cloud infrastructure experience, currently leading teams at Datadog from Nantes, France. He specializes in building reliable, observable cloud-native systems—advocating for metered components, data-driven decisions, and architectures that favor asynchronous, horizontally scalable microservices. Previously he scaled and automated large AWS fleets at Zendesk and Adobe using Terraform, immutable images, and automated instance rotation with rollback safeguards. Guillaume blends technical leadership with practical automation, having driven devops initiatives, acted as tech lead, and launched experimentation programs to foster innovation. Off-hours he’s a builder too—woodworking, CNC/3D printer projects, and custom mechanical keyboards—reflecting a maker mindset that informs his approach to resilient system design.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur Administration de / administrateur réseaux et systèmes, Diplôme d'ingénieur Administration de / administrateur réseaux et systèmes at EPSI MontpellierMaster’s Degree Génie logiciel, Master’s Degree Génie logiciel at iUT Nord Franche-Comté
French, English
Github Skills (67)
terraform10
thin10
linux10
terraform-provider10
aws10
vault9
ansible9
database9
cli9
python9
automation9
terraform-module9
ssh9
devops9
developer-tools8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sterfield/openvz-module
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 15 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
openvzansibleansible-role
sterfield/neovim-config
Aug 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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