Pierre Dal-pra
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Fontenay-aux-Roses, Île-de-France, France
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Top SchoolPierre Dal-pra is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Datadog in Île-de-France. He has deep Scala expertise across distributed systems, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code, with hands-on history migrating large platforms to ECS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Pierre has driven developer productivity through internal automation—creating tooling for library updates, Kafka topic and Avro schema management—and improved CI by authoring custom GitHub Actions. As a frequent open-source contributor, he has enhanced high-profile projects like Gatling (core performance and metrics) and sbt/scoverage (build/release automation), reflecting attention to code quality and observability. Colleagues value his blend of backend engineering, DevOps leadership, and pragmatic automation that turns operational pain points into repeatable processes. A subtle strength is his pattern of modernizing legacy stacks while keeping runtime performance and developer experience aligned.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Informatique, Master Informatique at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
plugin-development10
sbt10
scala10
build-automation10
build-tools10
performance-analytics9
performance-monitor9
performance-measurement9
performance-monitoring9
metric9
performance-analysis9
release-management9
documentation9
performance-tuning9
zinc8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gatling/gatling
Aug 2012 - Oct 2019
Modern Load Testing as Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:719 commits, 31 PRs, 209 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to the Gatling core library, improving data handling and performance. They implemented a converter from `RequestStatus` to boolean, introduced methods to access execution, and response times, and refactored code related to message handling and data writing. Further improvements were made to metrics collection by integrating Codahale Metrics to provide stats during runs, optimizing performance and code quality.
gatlingload-testingloadtestingtestingscala
sbt/sbt
Nov 2013 - Aug 2015
sbt, the interactive build tool
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 12 PRs, 77 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to the documentation and code quality of the sbt build tool. Their work involved replacing deprecated settings with the recommended `isSnapshot` setting, fixing typos in key descriptions within the core code, and making internal Logger methods public. Further contributions included minor cleanups across various files. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the tool's maintainability and clarity.
zincsbt-pluginscalasbtbuild-tool
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