Jason Watson
Director Of Engineering at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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SeniorJason Watson is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11+ years driving large-scale, cloud-native systems across startups and hyperscalers, currently directing Datadog’s APM Distributed Tracing and APM Lite efforts from Paris. He combines deep systems and language expertise (Java, C++, Go) with product-minded execution—leading teams building OTel, eBPF, embedded systems and AI-powered observability to surface and prevent customer-facing failures. His track record includes FAA-compliant flight software for Prime Air, launching AWS Organizations into GovCloud, and scaling petabyte video pipelines at Amazon, showing a consistent ability to deliver highly regulated, high-throughput systems. Known for legacy migrations and pragmatic technical mentorship, he blends hands-on architecture with relationship-driven leadership to align engineering with business outcomes. An uncommon thread in his career is repeatedly converging complex operational constraints (compliance, scale, real-time observability) into simple, maintainable products.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
programming-language9
golang9
go8
interpreter8
compiler6
odin6
goplus5
gpu5
vulkan4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ibd1279/vks
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
vks is a Vulkan bridge for Go.
Contributions:4 reviews, 38 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
golanggpuvulkanbridge
ibd1279/zigdnsguide
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 5 months
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