Olivier Vielpeau
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Vielpeau is an Engineering Manager based in Paris with 13 years of experience building and operating backend and DevOps-focused systems. Currently leading engineering at Datadog, he combines hands-on contributions to the Datadog Agent and core integrations (notably HAProxy, SSH, ZK and OpenTelemetry metric work) with managerial responsibilities. His work spans production-grade monitoring, packaging, and cross-platform deployment automation, including improvements to agent aggregation, proxy support and Windows installer flows. Comfortable in both Go and Python ecosystems, he has a track record of fixing subtle threading, linting and test stability issues that improve reliability at scale. An École centrale de Paris computer science engineer, he brings a systems-first mindset and a knack for quietly reducing operational debt through pragmatic refactors and test hygiene.
13 years of coding experience
Computer Science Engineer, Computer Science Engineer at Ecole centrale de Paris
French, English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (29)
monitoring10
integrate10
pytest10
python10
aggregator10
windows10
configuration-management10
intergration10
integrations10
chef-client10
go10
agent10
chef-solo10
haproxy10
devops10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-agent
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
Datadog Agent Version 5
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 8 reviews, 111 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributes to the Datadog Agent, focusing on infrastructure and backend improvements. Their work includes updating JMXFetch versions, which impacts the agent's monitoring capabilities. They also deprecated the dogstreams feature, updated packaging scripts, and modified configuration files. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring and optimizing the agent code, as shown by the pylint integration.
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DataDog/chef-datadog
May 2015 - Nov 2019
Chef cookbook for Datadog Agent & Integrations
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 1 review, 134 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Olivier made several contributions focused on improving the Datadog Chef cookbook's functionality and maintainability. They implemented changes related to Windows agent installations and configuration, including setting file permissions, and utilizing the `windows` cookbook. The user also updated the integration tests, replacing bats tests with serverspec tests to enhance cross-platform support. Furthermore, they addressed code quality by fixing rubocop offenses and improving the existing documentation.
datadog-agentcookbookagentintegrationschef-resource
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