Nicolas Savoire
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Biot, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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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 (48)
monitoring10
debugging10
hugo10
javascript10
observability10
continuous-integration10
ebpf10
data-center10
distributed-tracing10
dotnet10
opentracing10
perl10
java10
apm10
php10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-otel-host-profiler
Oct 2024 - Mar 2026
The opentelemetry profiler by Datadog
Contributions:118 reviews, 117 PRs, 306 pushes in 1 year 5 months
datadogopentelemetry
DataDog/opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler
Sep 2024 - Jul 2026
The production-scale datacenter profiler (C/C++, Go, Rust, Python, Java, NodeJS, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Perl, ...)
Contributions:11 reviews, 19 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 year 10 months
cppdata-centerdotnetgojava
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