Julien Lebot
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Marignier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolJulien Lebot is a Senior Software Engineer based near Paris with 11 years of experience building robust backend and DevOps solutions, currently at Datadog. He brings deep hands-on expertise improving agent software, installer tooling and deployment automation—contributions to high-profile Datadog repos show his comfort working on production-critical telemetry and idempotent deployment flows. Trained in computer science and electrical engineering (EPITECH, Murdoch), Julien pairs formal education with a long history of self-directed learning that started with writing BASIC on a TI-92. He thrives on technical challenges, prioritizes software craftsmanship and automated, repeatable delivery, and has a background spanning embedded/desktop apps, enterprise services and large-scale observability tooling. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and platform improvements that reduce operational friction while preserving performance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Murdoch University
English, French
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Github Skills (22)
docker10
windows10
configuration-management10
dockers10
chef-client10
automation10
go10
build-automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
continuous-integration9
powershell8
7zip8
cicd8
debug8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 1240 reviews, 527 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Julien's contributions focused on enhancing the Datadog Agent's core functionality and improving its installation process. Their work included bug fixes related to the agent's core functionality, as well as performance improvements and refactoring. Furthermore, the user was involved in build automation through tasks like generating and updating the Windows installer for the agent. This indicates a strong understanding of both backend development and DevOps practices.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/chef-datadog
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
Chef cookbook for Datadog Agent & Integrations
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 20 reviews, 59 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily focused on improving the Datadog agent's configuration and deployment process. This includes modifying the installation scripts for the Datadog agent on Windows, enabling environment variable usage for credentials, and adding cleanup mechanisms. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the system probe configuration and included a third-party integration framework. The user also contributed to making the agent recipe idempotent and addressed issues.
datadog-agentcookbookagentintegrationschef-resource
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