Summary
Massimiliano Gallo is an engineering manager at Datadog with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver scalable backend and platform engineering, currently focused on internal workflow platforms based on Temporal.io. He has a strong enterprise background from IBM, where he led distributed teams across Ireland and the US, drove DevOps and cloud-native deployments, and helped productionize ML and analytics pipelines on Kubernetes/OpenShift. Earlier roles at Microsoft and in research gave him deep grounding in test automation, distributed systems, and C/C++ image-processing work, paired with an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome. Known for combining hands-on technical leadership with cross-functional coordination, he often bridges engineering, data science and infrastructure teams to turn prototypes into reliable SaaS services. An engineer at heart, he retains low-level systems experience alongside modern cloud-native tooling and a pragmatic focus on observability and workflow reliability.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome
English, Italian, French