Paola Ducolin
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolPaola Ducolin is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 7 years of experience building reliable, cross-platform systems and observability tooling. She has progressed from embedded and desktop engineering to leading platform- and architecture-level work at Dashlane and Datadog, where she now focuses on backend integrations for the Datadog Agent. Her contributions include enhancing SNMP and core integrations—adding namespace configuration, hostname normalization and improved metrics/log support—demonstrating strong systems thinking in monitoring ecosystems. Comfortable across C++, Qt, .NET and cloud-native observability stacks, she blends low-level firmware/USB HID experience with large-scale backend engineering. Paola also brings hands-on leadership: driving technical decisions, coordinating stakeholders, and mentoring teams while evaluating new desktop technologies. An engineer who moves between device firmware and production monitoring agents, she’s unusually fluent at turning hardware-level constraints into robust, scalable software.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica Curriculum Telecomunicazioni, Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica Curriculum Telecomunicazioni at Università degli Studi di Udine
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (21)
monitoring10
snmp10
integrate10
python10
testing10
snmpd10
configuration-management10
intergration10
integrations10
go10
agent10
datadog10
metric10
pytest8
observability8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1594 reviews, 18 commits, 373 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Paola primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent's SNMP integration. They implemented features related to namespace configuration for SNMP checks, allowing for better organization and management of monitored devices. Their work involved modifying code to support this namespace feature across various components, including configuration, testing, and the main SNMP agent logic. They also normalized the hostname, and added the scale factor to SNMP metrics.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/integrations-core
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:302 reviews, 70 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Paola contributed to the Datadog Agent's core integrations by adding configuration specifications and enabling log support for various integrations, including Varnish, Supervisord, and Statsd. They also worked on adding functionality to existing integrations, such as adding hostname information to vSphere debug metrics and adding a service check for missing directories. Furthermore, the user made improvements by adding bandwidth usage metric and SNMP improvements.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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