Hippolyte Henry
Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolHippolyte Henry is a Paris-based Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and improving observability tooling at Datadog, where he progressed from intern to engineer. He specializes in backend and DevOps work—contributing to core projects like the Datadog Agent, integrations, the Python client, and the Terraform provider—focusing on practical improvements such as API correctness, robust build/versioning, network/container monitoring, and role/permission resources. His contributions reveal a knack for digging into edge cases (e.g., avoiding JSON bodies on GETs, working around ss command bugs, and collecting container exit codes) and for improving state consistency and validation in production-grade code. Trained in electrical engineering and computer science at KTH and CentraleSupélec, he combines strong academic foundations with rapid prototyping experience and a practitioner’s emphasis on observability and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at CentraleSupélecIntensive preparation courses (Classes préparatoires MP), Maths, Physics, Computer Science, Intensive preparation courses (Classes préparatoires MP), Maths, Physics, Computer Science at Lycée Pierre Corneille - Rouen, FranceComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Digital Tech YearMaster's degree, Electrical Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyFrench Baccalaureate with high honors for scientific studies (S), Sciences, French Baccalaureate with high honors for scientific studies (S), Sciences at Lycée Jacques Prévert - Pont-Audemer, France
English, French
Github Skills (36)
docker10
py10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
data-api10
network-monitoring10
containerization10
dockers10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
go10
api10
devops10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/terraform-provider-datadog
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Terraform Datadog provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:404 reviews, 82 commits, 167 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Hippolyte focused on improving the Datadog Terraform provider. Their contributions included adding a default value to a deprecated field, implementing a data source for monitors, adding a data source for roles, and creating a resource for roles and permissions. They also added documentation for the monitor datasource. They also performed refactoring, specifically to improve the consistency of resource states and fixed issues related to validation and error handling.
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DataDog/datadogpy
May 2019 - Jul 2021
The Datadog Python library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 29 reviews, 51 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hippolyte primarily contributed to the Datadog Python library by addressing issues related to API requests, specifically preventing the sending of JSON bodies in GET requests. They also worked on improving code maintainability by importing `Iterable` from `collections.abc` on Python 3. Moreover, the user added functionality to control the attachment of hostnames to metrics and distributions, enhancing flexibility. These changes indicate a focus on improving API interaction and overall library functionality.
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