Karim Bogtob
Software Engineer at Datadog
Greater Clermont-Ferrand Area France
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Top SchoolKarim Bogtob is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on distributed systems, scalability and clean, well-designed code. Currently at Datadog, he has improved build and release automation for the widely used datadog-agent and contributed to the chef-datadog cookbook, hardening monitoring integrations and packaging across architectures. He enjoys optimizing systems for efficiency and reliability, with practical DevOps and automation chops (RPM/DEB packaging, Docker init fixes, kitchen tests). Karim also teaches Ruby and TDD at the IUT Clermont-Ferrand, bringing a pragmatic pedagogy to code quality and modeling. His background spans semantic web R&D, performance tuning, and implementing CI/CD workflows, reflecting a mix of research-minded problem solving and hands-on production delivery. Based in Clermont-Ferrand, he’s open to consulting and quietly seeks opportunities where elegant systems matter.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie en Informatique, Systèmes informatiques, Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie en Informatique, Systèmes informatiques at Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Clermont-FerrandDiplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Institut Supérieur d'Informatique de Modélisation et de leurs applications, Génie logiciel et systèmes informatiques, Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Institut Supérieur d'Informatique de Modélisation et de leurs applications, Génie logiciel et systèmes informatiques at ISIMA
français, langue maternelle, anglais professionnel (toeic 915), japonais débutant, German
Github Skills (27)
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
chef-client10
automation10
yaml10
datadog10
test-integration10
chef-solo10
automations10
integration-testing10
github-ci9
ruby9
bash9
go9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/chef-datadog
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Chef cookbook for Datadog Agent & Integrations
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 43 commits, 48 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Karim primarily focuses on enhancing the Datadog Chef cookbook by integrating and configuring monitoring for various services like Mesos, Postgres, Cassandra, Kafka, and others. Their work includes creating recipes, adding monitor configurations, and updating test specifications to validate the integrations. A significant part of their contribution involves refactoring the configuration structure and updating the build process.
datadog-agentcookbookagentintegrationschef-resource
DataDog/datadog-agent
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:47 commits, 54 PRs, 174 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Karim focused on improving the Datadog Agent's build and release processes. They addressed compatibility issues by modifying init scripts for Docker environments. Further contributions involved automating the packaging and release of the "puppy" agent, encompassing RPM and DEB releases for various architectures. Additionally, they implemented tests using kitchen tests to validate agent functionalities.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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