Nicolas Savoire
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Biot, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Savoire is a senior software engineer based in Biot, France, with a strong foundation from École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris and over a decade of engineering experience across research-driven and product-focused companies. He has progressed from research engineering roles in medical imaging to senior and principal engineering positions at Amadeus, and today contributes to Datadog’s platform engineering. Comfortable bridging advanced algorithms and production systems, he brings applied mathematics and image-processing expertise to large-scale distributed software problems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technologist who moves between deep technical design and hands-on implementation. His career shows a recurring theme of turning research-grade ideas into reliable, deployable systems for global products. Based in the French Riviera, he blends rigorous academic training with practical experience delivering mission-critical software.
4 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Scientific (Bac S), Suma cum laude (mention très bien), Baccalauréat, Scientific (Bac S), Suma cum laude (mention très bien) at Lycée Saint-JosephEngineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at Ecole polytechniqueMaster's degree, Applied Mathematics, Image Processing, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Image Processing at Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications / Telecom ParisClasses Préparatoires, Advanced Mathematics and Physics, Classes Préparatoires, Advanced Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Poincaré
French, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (58)
hugo10
javascript10
faraday10
continuous-integration10
tracer10
distributed-tracing10
drone-ci10
opentracing10
apm10
dry-rb10
pipe10
profiling10
ruby-client10
datadog10
nodejs10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
The production-scale datacenter profiler (C/C++, Go, Rust, Python, Java, NodeJS, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Perl, ...)
Contributions:8 reviews, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
DataDog/opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler-archived
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
The production-scale datacenter profiler (C/C++, Go, Rust, Python, Java, NodeJS, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Perl, ...)
Contributions:3 reviews, 21 PRs, 87 pushes in 18 days
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