Jean-philippe Bempel
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolJean-philippe Bempel is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in JVM performance, low-latency systems and mechanical sympathy. He has driven production optimizations from 100µs trading routers to thousand-node clusters at Criteo and now focuses on improving Datadog’s Java tracer and profiler agents. A Java Champion and JDK Mission Control committer, he contributes to high-impact open-source projects such as dd-trace-java and AsyncProfiler, bringing deep HotSpot and GC expertise (Shenandoah, ZGC, C4) to real-world diagnostics. Known for combining OS/hardware tuning, lock-free techniques and JVM internals, he also regularly shares his findings at international conferences.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
SCIA, SCIA at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
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Github Skills (14)
opentelemetry10
javas10
automation10
automations10
instrumentation10
jvm10
performance-optimization10
java10
profiling10
testing10
java-agent9
debug9
debugging9
logging8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-java
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Datadog APM client for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:759 reviews, 240 commits, 760 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jean-philippe contributed to the Datadog APM client for Java, focusing on infrastructure and performance. Their commits added features related to profiling and instrumentation of the JVM. They improved error handling and reporting, as well as, implemented configuration, build processes and testing for agent infrastructure.
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jpbempel/jpbempel.github.io
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Performance minded
Contributions:327 commits, 11 PRs, 347 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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