Nick Angelou
Software Engineering Manager at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Angelou is a software engineering manager based in Paris with over a decade of experience building secure, high-performance systems and growing engineering teams. He blends hands-on C++ and build engineering chops—demonstrated by fixes to Microsoft SEAL’s core memory bugs and adding Emscripten support—with leadership roles across observability, core platform, and security domains. Nick has founded a penetration-testing consultancy and served as CISO, giving him a rare combination of entrepreneurial, security-first thinking and production engineering rigor. He co-authored a privacy-preserving PSI library accepted at NeurIPS’ Privacy-Preserving ML Workshop, highlighting his applied crypto expertise. At Datadog and prior startups he’s focused on scalable, observable systems, performance tuning, and developer workflows. Collected across industry and open source, his work is characterized by practical fixes to hard engineering problems and a knack for bridging research-grade cryptography into usable tooling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Stackoverflow
26reputation
319reached
4answers
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
memory-management10
cmake10
cryptography10
cprogramming-language10
encryption10
homomorphic-encryption10
debugging9
build-system9
emscripten9
webassembly6
bazel-rules6
seal6
bazel6
pybind116
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/SEAL
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Microsoft SEAL is an easy-to-use and powerful homomorphic encryption library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 38 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Microsoft SEAL library by identifying and fixing memory-related bugs within the core C++ code, as well as addressing header signature issues. They demonstrated proficiency in C++ by resolving memory access violations. Furthermore, the user added support for building the project with Emscripten and corrected CMake configuration, showcasing experience in cross-compilation and build system customization.
homomorphic-encryptionencryptioncryptography
OpenMined/PSI
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Private Set Intersection Cardinality protocol based on ECDH and Bloom Filters
Contributions:20 releases, 10 reviews, 69 commits in 2 years 8 months
bloom-filterecdhprivate-set-intersectionccpp
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