Nicolas Guerguadj
Software Engineer at Datadog
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Guerguadj is a software engineer with six years of experience, currently building backend and observability features at Datadog after progressing from intern to full-time engineer. Trained at EPITA and Politechnika Krakowska, he blends academic rigor with hands-on production work in monitoring, telemetry, and DevOps. His contributions to the widely used DataDog Agent include environment-driven configuration, HTTP tracing, enhanced telemetry and diagnostics, and improved profiling/status tooling that reduce debugging friction. Comfortable teaching C, C++, Java and UNIX early in his career, he brings both code-level craftsmanship and a pragmatic focus on operational reliability.
6 years of coding experience
Ingénierie informatique, Ingénierie informatique at Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza KościuszkiDiplôme d'ingénieur, Ingénierie informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ingénierie informatique at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieur en Informatique
English, Polish
Github Skills (19)
monitoring10
configuration-management10
go10
telemetry10
observability9
apidoc9
devops9
api9
distributed-tracing8
apm8
http7
trace7
tracer7
opentelemetry7
logging7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:442 reviews, 32 commits, 135 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent's configuration and monitoring functionalities. Their work involved implementing environment variables for configuring the Datadog server URL, adding histogram bucket statistics to the status page, expvars, and telemetry. They also worked on improving status messages when API key validation fails and added a new subcommand for diagnosing connectivity issues. Furthermore, the user implemented HTTP tracing for requests sent to the endpoints and updated the profiling endpoint to avoid 404 errors.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/datadog-agent-buildimages
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
Build images for the Datadog Agent
Contributions:9 reviews, 10 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 8 months
golangdatadog-agentagentdatadog
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