Nicolas Couvrat
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNicolas Couvrat is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across Datadog and PlayStation, currently focused on core event storage and auto-scaling at Datadog. A Mines ParisTech graduate who has worked in Tokyo for Sony Interactive Entertainment, he blends distributed-systems expertise in Python and Go with front-end experience in React. He has led small teams to deliver high-impact services—designing cryptographic protocols, REST proxies and caching layers that reduced load by orders of magnitude—and implemented distributed query and compression features that accelerated analytics at Datadog. Bilingual in French and English and fluent in Japanese, he pairs strong international collaboration skills with a curiosity-driven approach to learning new technologies. An active communicator, he speaks at conferences and writes technical blog posts, and outside work he’s a lifelong Vim user who enjoys cooking.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Executive Engineering, Master's degree Executive Engineering at Mines Paris - PSLInformation and Communication technologies, Information and Communication technologies at Doshisha UniversityClasse préparatoire Physics Applied mathematics Engineering, Classe préparatoire Physics Applied mathematics Engineering at Lycée Louis-le-Grand
English, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nicolascouvrat/dotfiles
May 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:14 PRs, 45 pushes, 15 branches in 6 years 1 month
nicolascouvrat/asten
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Yet another NES emulator
Contributions:1 release, 132 commits, 17 PRs in 9 months
gameboyemulatornesyet-anotheremulation
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