Jacobo Tarragon
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJacobo Tarragon is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading ML services, developer enablement, and platform transitions across startups and hyperscale companies. Currently at Datadog, he previously scaled ML-powered features and built a data science team through acquisitions at Reply.ai, Kustomer and Meta, co-owning quality benchmarking, incident response, and org integration efforts. He combines a strong hands-on backend pedigree—evident from Django contributions to the IETF datatracker—with product sensibility for semantic search, agent suggestion models, and developer productivity tooling. Comfortable moving between infrastructure, design systems and ML initiatives, he repeatedly shapes technical strategy during M&A and exit preparations. Based in Madrid with a background at CERN and fintech startups, he blends academic rigor from an MSc in Computer Science with pragmatic delivery in high-stakes, cross-functional environments. A not-obvious strength: he pairs code-level attention to quality (PEP8, parsing fixes) with senior management experience in vendor, APAC reseller and due-diligence processes.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science and Engineering, MSc Computer Science and Engineering at Universitat Jaume I
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
databases10
python10
database10
django10
ietf9
text-parsing8
parsing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ietf-tools/datatracker
Feb 2011 - Feb 2011
The day-to-day front-end to the IETF database for people who work on IETF standards.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Jacobo primarily contributed to the backend of the datatracker application, implementing and modifying Django models, forms, and views. Their work included fixing crucial cutoff logic for submissions, implementing abstract parsing functionality, and incorporating changes to allow submissions to be canceled. Furthermore, they addressed PEP8 compliance and WG approval checks, suggesting a focus on code quality and workflow enhancements within the IETF database environment.
djangodaystandardsdatatrackerdatabase
jminuscula/dixit-online
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
Online version of the Dixit boardgame
Contributions:87 commits, 1 PR, 73 pushes in 3 years 10 months
javascriptreacttypescriptboardgame
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