Nayef Ghattas
Staff Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNayef Ghattas is a Staff Engineer at Datadog with 11 years of experience building and optimizing cloud-native systems, specializing in Go, profiling, Kubernetes, and observability. He progressed through multiple engineering and SRE roles at Datadog, moving from intern to staff-level contributor, which reflects deep operational experience in large-scale distributed systems. Based in Paris, he combines systems-level performance work with practical cloud engineering, often focusing on runtime profiling and efficiency improvements that reduce production cost and latency. His CentraleSupélec engineering background underpins a strong foundation in math and systems thinking, and he brings a hands-on mentality to both code and infrastructure. Colleagues appreciate that he blends low-level performance tuning with pragmatic platform design, making complex systems easier to run and reason about.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering degree at Ecole Centrale Paris Engineering, Master of Engineering degree at Ecole Centrale Paris Engineering at CentraleSupélecL2 Maths physics and computer science, L2 Maths physics and computer science at Lycée Sainte-GenevièveBaccalaureate Scientific Maths Specialization, Baccalaureate Scientific Maths Specialization at Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour
French, English, Arabic, Chinese
Github Skills (158)
programming-language10
github10
distributed-tracing10
avahi10
interpreter10
ruby10
scheduling10
automation10
profiling10
monitoring10
mesos10
virtualization10
ansible10
golang10
vagrant10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Gandem/thuv
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:60 releases, 15 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 month
DataDog/dd-otel-host-profiler
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
The opentelemetry profiler by Datadog
Contributions:102 reviews, 69 PRs, 113 pushes in 5 months
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