Pablo Baeyens
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Spain
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Top SchoolPablo Baeyens is a Senior Software Engineer based in Spain with 12 years of experience specializing in backend and DevOps for observability tooling. Currently at Datadog, he contributes to agent installation, CI/CD improvements, cross-platform packaging (Windows Chocolatey, macOS, Docker) and integrations that bridge metrics from OpenTelemetry into Datadog. His open-source work includes building a Datadog metrics exporter and enhancing the puppet-datadog-agent module with packaging key management and SUSE support, showing an unusual blend of low-level installer scripting and high-level metric translation. Trained in both mathematics and computer science at the University of Granada, he brings analytical rigor to operational reliability and infrastructure automation.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at University of Granada
Spanish, English, French
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1669 reviews, 327 commits, 796 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pablo's primary focus was on enhancing the Datadog Agent's functionality, particularly concerning installation, configuration, and operational improvements within a Windows environment. Their contributions centered around the agent's installation process, specifically its integration with Chocolatey, including the creation and modification of installation scripts, ensuring correct installation information, and addressing issues related to PowerShell script execution. Moreover, the user worked on adding enhancements and fixes on different tools and areas of the agent such as adding agent flavors to metadata, including install information in Docker images and macOS install scripts. The user demonstrated DevOps skills through their work on CI/CD pipelines, as they implemented enhancements to the test and release processes, and added security and quality-of-life improvements to the agent.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2705 reviews, 178 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pablo primarily contributed to the implementation and structure of a Datadog metrics exporter. They added the core structure for a Datadog exporter for metrics, including setting up configurations for API keys, host names, metrics and more. This involved writing functions for the translation of metrics and data points. The user also added the capability of exporting the metrics to datadog as well as metrics from the resource attributes.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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