Michel Daviot
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel Daviot is an engineering manager and former CTO with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native teams and systems across Scala, React, JVM ecosystems and AWS. He combines hands-on technical craftsmanship—contributing bug fixes and property-based tests to open-source projects like scala-steward and a 3D bin-packing implementation—with strategic leadership in product, architecture and operational research (VRP). Based in Lille, he has a strong background in agile coaching, training (100+ days delivered) and migrating legacy landscapes while controlling technical debt. At Colisweb he led a 20-person cross-functional organization; he now applies that experience to managing engineering at Datadog. Known for pragmatic attention to correctness and test automation, he often bridges deep algorithmic fixes with team-level process improvements.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bac, S, Bac, S at CoubertinMPSI / MP*, MPSI / MP* at Lycée Saint Louis ParisIngénieur, Informatique, Ingénieur, Informatique at ENSEEIHT
English
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Github Skills (24)
algorithm10
property-based-testing10
algorithms10
testing10
sbt10
java10
scala10
javas10
gitlab10
junit10
dependency-analysis9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
bots9
googlebot9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
skjolber/3d-bin-container-packing
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
A variant of the Largest Area Fit First (LAFF) algorithm + brute force algorithm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:58 commits, 21 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michel primarily contributed to testing and improving the `BruteForcePackager` within the context of 3D bin packing. They identified and fixed bugs related to the core algorithm, specifically in the `BruteForcePackagerTest` and `ContainerTest` classes. The user also implemented property-based tests using JQwik to validate the packing logic, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the reliability and correctness of the packing algorithms. This work included refactoring and fixing a volume exposure issue.
3d-bin-packingfitbrute-forcebrute2d-bin-packing
scala-steward-org/scala-steward
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
:robot: A bot that helps you keep your projects up-to-date
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michel contributed to the core logic of the scala-steward bot, addressing bug fixes and enhancements. They focused on improving the handling of GitLab merge requests, including filtering and status updates. Key contributions included refactoring the update heuristic, incorporating sliding artifactId matching, and improving internal logging. The user also addressed a crash related to scalafix migrations and improved test coverage.
scala-cliazure-reposdependenciesupdate-servicemaven
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