Joel Marcotte
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoel Marcotte is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web and observability systems, currently at Datadog in Ottawa. He blends a scientist’s rigor with pragmatic engineering, having moved from organic chemistry research to leading GraphQL and frontend platform work at SurveyMonkey and database monitoring at Datadog. Joel has shipped impactful features like Database Monitoring for SQL Server, fleet-level telemetry, explain plan visualizations, and a widely used React dashboard that serves thousands daily. He excels at translating complex domain knowledge into elegant, production-ready tools—often owning end-to-end systems from API design to ML-backed recommendations. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and data pipelines, he favors measurable, automated solutions that surface actionable insights for users. His background in chemistry and biopharmaceutical sciences gives him an uncommon blend of experimental thinking and software craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Organic Chemistry, M.Sc., Organic Chemistry at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaD.E.S., D.E.S. at Collège Saint-AlexandreBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 10, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 10 at University of Ottawa
French, English
Github Skills (117)
testing10
drag10
sortable10
javascript10
splitter10
internationalization10
formatter10
api10
yaml10
json10
draggable10
printer10
drag-and-drop10
facebook10
markdown9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SurveyMonkey/graphql-ergonomock
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Automatic mocking of GraphQL queries
Contributions:11 releases, 4 reviews, 37 commits in 4 months
factorytestinggraphql-queriesgraphql-toolsgraphiql
joual/react-select
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
react-jsreactjsreact
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