Marc Cenac
Staff Engineer at Datadog
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Cenac is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and turning product ideas into production-ready code from New Orleans. Currently at Datadog, he brings deep data and API expertise honed through senior roles on Recurly’s data team and long-form backend work at companies like Boundless and GE Capital. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as Apache Iceberg, where he added REST API features and partition/statistics enhancements—showing skill with data formats, catalog integration, and cloud storage paths. With a B.S. in Physics, Marc blends analytical rigor with practical engineering, often tackling nuanced data consistency and initialization edge cases in distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics, B.S. Physics at Loyola University New Orleans
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Jul 2023 - Oct 2025
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 12 PRs, 24 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to enhancing the open-api for the Apache Iceberg project. They focused on adding features related to statistics, specifically including adding last-sequence-number, table updates, and updates for partition statistics. Their work involved modifying the open-api files, demonstrating their understanding of REST API specifications and related data structures within Iceberg. The user also added a property to disable table initialization for JdbcCatalog and support for wasb[s] paths in ADLSFileIO.
apache-icebergicebergapache
codefornola/assessor-scraper
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019
A project to scrape the assessor's website and make the data accessible for advanced queries
Contributions:20 commits, 29 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 1 month
scrapenew-orleanscivic-techassessors-websiteassessor-scraper
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