Maxime David
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMaxime David is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently working on AWS Lambda after a multi-year stint advancing serverless observability at Datadog. He specializes in prototyping and proof-of-concept development, with deep technical focus on serverless instrumentation, tracing and performance profiling across .NET, Java and agent components. A prolific open-source contributor, he helped evolve Datadog’s dd-trace libraries and agent to better support AWS Lambda extensions and diverse handler configurations, and also contributes to documentation and build pipelines. His background spans platform and web architecture roles in banking and fintech where he led migrations to microservices, Quarkus adoption, and production-grade GraphQL and SSO solutions. Maxime combines hands-on low-level performance tuning with shaping developer experience for cloud-native systems—a blend reflected in both code and docs. Off the clock he’s an international speaker and unabashed banana-bread aficionado, a small hint of the curiosity that drives his continuous tinkering.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at IUT Paris DescartesMaitrise en génie électrique, Maitrise en génie électrique at Université de SherbrookeIngénieur Génie informatique, Ingénieur Génie informatique at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)Summer Session, Summer Session at Stanford University
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (35)
hugo10
tracer10
distributed-tracing10
net10
aws-lambda10
dotnet10
apm10
java10
asp-net10
javas10
go10
dotnet-core10
datadog10
serverless10
logging10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:311 reviews, 231 commits, 181 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent, focusing on enhancements and refactoring of the serverless agent's components. Their commits involved merging extensions, particularly version 9 and 10, into the main branch, suggesting involvement in feature integration and version updates. They also made improvements to key handling, trace blocklisting, and metric processing, indicating their work on the serverless agent’s core functionality.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/dd-trace-java
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Datadog APM client for Java
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily focused on adding and modifying serverless-related functionality within the Datadog APM Java client. Their contributions include adding support for serverless extensions, which involved creating new classes and modifying existing ones to detect and interact with the serverless environment. Additionally, the user addressed comments from pull requests, further refining the serverless integration and ensuring proper behavior in serverless deployments.
apm-clientapmbytebuddydatadoghqtracing
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