Paul Coignet
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
France
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Coignet is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building secure, scalable back-end systems at Datadog, where he progressed from intern to lead contributor on fleet automation and remote configuration platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise in distributed agent infrastructure, Go, protobuf/JSON serialization, and The Update Framework (TUF) for secure deployments, and has improved core OpenStack integrations and agent reliability at scale. Paul combines systems-level engineering (state machines for safe upgrades) with developer-experience work—CI, testing and tooling—to boost team productivity and platform robustness. His background in integrating diverse technologies (vSphere, Hive, MarkLogic, AV1 in libwebrtc) and running a 50-person student ops organization reflects both broad technical curiosity and proven operational leadership.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Cursus Centralien, Cursus Centralien at CentraleSupélecMathématiques Physique Chimie, Mathématiques Physique Chimie at Classe préparatoire Thiers
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
json10
go10
openstack10
back-end-development10
python10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
observability9
caching9
testing8
devops8
distributed-tracing5
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:826 reviews, 1155 commits, 982 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily revolve around refactoring and improving the OpenStack controller cache within the Datadog Agent. This includes code modifications to enhance efficiency and stability in managing and caching server metadata within the OpenStack environment. Further work involves refactoring the OpenStack controller check API and the underlying caches, alongside adding and refactoring test code, indicating a focus on improving both performance and testability of the OpenStack integration. The code changes show a focus on implementing and managing OpenStack data to collect.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
DataDog/datadog-agent
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:227 reviews, 26 commits, 154 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the Datadog Agent by implementing features related to remote configuration management. They modified code to patch a CVE, added new commands for remote-config state, and refactored code for improved performance. Additionally, they added the ability to include the remote config database to the flare, indicating involvement in infrastructure and troubleshooting aspects. The user demonstrated expertise in Go and interacted with data serialization/deserialization using protobuf and JSON formats.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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