Julien Billon

Senior Software Engineer at Datadog

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Julien Billon is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nice, France, with roughly 6 years of senior-level experience and a long history at Amadeus before joining Datadog in 2021. He has progressed through roles spanning enterprise service bus work to revenue accounting and inventory systems, indicating deep expertise in large-scale, mission-critical backend systems for travel and observability domains. Julien combines pragmatic engineering with system design chops gained from more than a decade working on complex enterprise platforms, making him comfortable across distributed systems and data-intensive applications. His career shows both stability and upward mobility, moving from hands-on developer roles into principal and senior engineering positions. Fluent in navigating large organizations, he brings institutional knowledge of legacy integration alongside modern cloud-native practices at Datadog.
code6 years of coding experience
job13 years of employment as a software developer
bookÉcole de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
bookEngineer's degree, Engineer's degree at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
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Github Skills (10)

datadog10
hugo10
documentation10
openapi7
api7
golang6
forwarding5
synchronization4
go3
remote-development1

Programming languages (2)

GoHTML

Github contributions (5)

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jbillon/qmk_firmware

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year
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jbillon/.tmux

Jun 2021 - Sep 2022

🇫🇷 Oh my tmux! My self-contained, pretty & versatile tmux configuration made with ❤️
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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Julien Billon - Senior Software Engineer at Datadog