Michael Filipchuk is a Senior Software Engineer and Platform/SRE specialist with a decade of experience designing resilient, cost-efficient cloud-native systems, currently driving observability and platform work at Datadog from Lisbon. He has led zero-downtime database migrations, built a serverless apps platform with reusable Terraform and GitHub Actions, and implemented Semantic Release and Renovate flows that saved engineering teams hundreds of hours weekly. His work consistently boosts reliability and developer productivity—achieving 99.95% uptime, 4x faster CI builds, and a 25% reduction in cloud spend. A former physicist by training (MIPT) and 42 Paris alumnus, he blends strong systems rigor with practical automation and open-source contributions, often surfacing engineering productivity gains that aren’t obvious from product metrics alone.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Quantum Radiophysics, Master’s Degree Quantum Radiophysics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at 42 Paris
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 month
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Michael Filipchuk - Senior Software Engineer at Datadog