Nick Hinsch
Engineering Manager, Logs Core Logs Pipelines at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Hinsch is an engineering manager based in Paris with 11 years of experience building and leading teams focused on logs and serverless infrastructure at Datadog. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to high-profile open-source repos like Datadog’s serverless functions and agent—with documentation and product-facing responsibilities that keep operational tooling accurate and reliable. Known for shipping business-critical log pipelines and Lambda integrations, he has implemented enhanced metrics, improved error and timeout handling, and streamlined build and test processes. Previously he led engineering teams at Managed by Q, driving integrations and mentoring engineers, and he brings a pragmatic mix of technical depth, delivery discipline, and attention to developer experience. An uncommon detail: he moved from front-end interactive work early in his career to become a specialist in observability and serverless telemetry, pairing product-focused documentation skills with low-level backend refinements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science at Washington University in St. LouisHigh School, High School at Princeton High School
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (20)
hugo10
python10
aws-lambda10
go10
datadog10
serverless10
logging10
serverless-functions10
documentation10
metric10
testing9
observability9
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-serverless-functions
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Repo of AWS Lambda and Azure Functions functions that process streams and send data to Datadog
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 49 reviews, 33 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Datadog serverless functions, with a focus on log monitoring and trace forwarding. They updated code related to log truncation and private link URLs. Furthermore, the user implemented an "out of memory" enhanced metric and updated the forwarder version. The contributions also involved changes to the build process and integration tests.
aws-lambdaazure-functionsdatadoglambda
DataDog/datadog-agent
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:300 reviews, 74 commits, 92 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributes to the Datadog Agent, focusing on serverless function enhancements and AWS Lambda integration. Their work involves modifying code to lowercase AWS resource names, adding support for enhanced metrics to Lambda Extensions, and refactoring existing functionality. The user also implements features to handle timeout metrics and improve general error handling within the serverless context.
datadogmonitoringgoapm-agentapm-instrumentation
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