Hugo Henley
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolHugo Henley is an experienced SRE and engineering manager with 11 years building highly reliable, large-scale systems and a Master's in Machine Learning. He currently leads Datadog’s API Reliability and API Edge Services teams, driving work across rate limiting, dynamic Envoy routing, Edge WAF, public APIs, chaos engineering and incident response for globally distributed services. Known for turning high-traffic challenges into repeatable, observable platforms, he previously engineered infrastructure that scaled 6000% and handled billions of monthly requests using Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes and AWS. Hugo blends hands-on systems design with organizational practices—postmortems, game days and knowledge-sharing—to raise reliability across teams. Based in the Greater Paris area, he pairs a research-minded ML background with deep production SRE instincts to balance risk, cost and performance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Master's degree, Computer Science - Machine Learning at Universidade Federal Fluminense
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (86)
controller10
rancher10
charts10
kubernetes10
elastic10
kafka-cluster10
docker10
ingress10
aws10
helm9
ksqldb9
container-management9
orchestration9
elasticsearch9
kafka-connect9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hugohenley/gem-blocker
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:70 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
followanalytics/amazon-redshift-utils
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
Amazon Redshift Utils contains utilities, scripts and view which are useful in a Redshift environment
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
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