Omer Raviv
Team Lead at Datadog
Israel
Summary
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RockstarOmer Raviv is a seasoned software leader and team lead at Datadog with over a decade of experience building developer tools and observability systems. He co-founded and served as CTO of Ozcode, a startup focused on cloud-native debugging that Datadog acquired in 2021, and he brings entrepreneurial product instincts to platform engineering. Hands-on across back-end systems, Omer has contributed to high-impact open-source work such as the Datadog .NET tracing client, improving reliability, native loader logging, and cross-platform testability. He has a track record of mentoring small teams—from early leadership in the IDF to guiding engineers at Datadog—and excels at turning fragile diagnostics into maintainable, production-ready tooling. Based in Israel, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with an operator’s sense for improving developer workflows and observability.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (27)
debugging10
tracer10
testing10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
apm10
asp-net10
visual-studio10
datadog10
trace10
keyboard-shortcuts9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
.NET Client Library for Datadog APM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:632 reviews, 167 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Omer's contributions primarily focused on improving the Datadog .NET tracing library. They addressed test flakiness, added logging capabilities to the native loader, and refactored the integration tests to utilize the Native Loader, thereby enhancing the reliability and maintainability of the codebase. Furthermore, the user adapted the codebase to align with changes in the RCM request schema and improved the documentation to support building and testing on Linux using 'Docker for Windows'. They also fixed CLI tool failing process checks when using Native Loader and improved PDB reading capability.
net-librarydotnetprofilingapmtracing
OmerRaviv/PdbBenchmarks
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 7 pushes in 4 months
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