Nicolas Renaud
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Mouans-Sartoux, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Renaud is an experienced engineering leader based in Mouans-Sartoux, France, currently managing engineering teams at Datadog after a long tenure at Amadeus. Over more than 15 years at Amadeus he progressed from hands-on performance-focused development to leading large, distributed organisations—ultimately managing a 60-person department across Nice, Boston and Bangalore for airline ticketing. He combines deep technical roots in performance and database optimization with proven people-management skills, delivering complex travel-industry systems at scale. At Datadog he now applies that operational and observability mindset to cloud-native engineering challenges. Trained at Ecole Centrale de Paris, he brings a systems-oriented approach and a track record of turning performance bottlenecks into reliable, production-grade solutions.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Ecole Centrale de ParisLycee Francais de BelgiqueLycee Faidherbe
Github Skills (12)
datadog10
hugo10
documentation10
profiling9
logging9
monitoring8
distributed-tracing8
otel8
apm-agent8
go7
observability7
security2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
nicolas-renaud/FinanceBuddy
Apr 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
DataDog/documentation
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
datadoghugowiki
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