Maxime mouial
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxime mouial is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 13 years of experience building and operating high‑performance backend systems, currently advancing the Datadog Agent ecosystem. He has deep hands‑on expertise in Go, C and Python, contributing across core agent functionality, integrations and telemetry—work that includes adding Unix memory/CPU checks, Go expvar and Varnish support, and hardening Python YAML handling for security. At Datadog he progressed from engineer to staff, driving client-side aggregation, race-condition fixes and robust test improvements for widely used open-source components like datadog-agent and datadog-go. Earlier roles in large French web platforms and CDN development reflect a strong systems programming background and a taste for pragmatic API and process design. Colleagues rely on him for tackling low-level concurrency and observability challenges while keeping a practical eye on operational safety.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechSummer Sessions Computer Sciences, Summer Sessions Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyA semester as part of an exchange program Computer Sciences, A semester as part of an exchange program Computer Sciences at California State University of Long Beach (CSULB)Equivalent to high school degree with an emphasis in sciences Sciences, Equivalent to high school degree with an emphasis in sciences Sciences at Lycée Charles Peguy
Github Skills (39)
monitoring10
statsd10
pytest10
data-collection10
python10
testing10
filesystemwatcher10
system-monitoring10
agent10
go10
varnish10
collections10
file-monitoring10
devops10
metric10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-go
Jan 2020 - May 2022
go dogstatsd client library for datadog
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 78 reviews, 106 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `datadog-go` library. Their contributions included updating the client version, fixing race conditions in tests, and adding a channel mode to the client. The user also implemented client-side aggregation, including initial implementation and subsequent improvements. They also addressed bugs, specifically in the closing logic of the sender and in the tests.
golangclient-librarydogstatsdgodogstatsd-client
DataDog/datadog-agent
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 1678 reviews, 785 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Maxime's contributions primarily focused on expanding the functionality of the Datadog Agent by adding new metrics and enhancing existing checks. Their work included creating a memory and swap check for various Unix systems, as well as implementing a CPU check for unix-like systems. They also debugged and fixed issues with python scripts within the agent by addressing problems with python's error handling and handling configuration.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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