Matteo Bertrone
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMatteo Bertrone is an engineering manager and eBPF/XDP specialist with over a decade of experience building high-performance networking and observability platforms, now leading the eBPF Platform Team at Datadog. His background blends academic research from Politecnico di Torino with hands-on product work at Sysdig and contributions to the influential iovisor/bcc project, where he improved HTTP packet parsing and fixed critical memory issues. Matteo has a proven track record of designing scalable, concurrent network programmability solutions and moving research prototypes into production-grade tooling. He has led cross-functional teams as a technical lead and staff engineer, mentoring engineers while driving architecture and performance optimizations. A competitive programmer (Italian IOI bronze, SWERC participant) who spent time collaborating with Silicon Valley teams, he pairs deep low-level systems expertise with pragmatic delivery. Outside work he is an avid cook, photographer, and gardener — and proudly cultivates basil for his celebrated homemade pizza.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma di liceo scientifico Liceo Scientifico P.N.I., Diploma di liceo scientifico Liceo Scientifico P.N.I. at IISS Norberto Bobbio, Carignano (TO)Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
c1110
python10
networking10
ebpf10
linux9
socket9
performance-analysis8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iovisor/bcc
Feb 2016 - May 2016
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matteo primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of an eBPF-based HTTP packet analyzer within the `iovisor/bcc` repository, focusing on extracting URLs from HTTP requests. Their contributions included refactoring and enhancing the HTTP parsing logic in both C and Python, along with adding interface selection functionality. They also addressed code improvements and included a fix for invalid memory access within the code.
bpflinuxmonitoringnetworking
iovisor/iovisor-ovn
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
IOVisor OVN integration
Contributions:224 commits, 25 PRs, 202 pushes in 6 months
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