Pierre Lacave
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolPierre Lacave is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 11+ years building high-performance data and analytics platforms, currently shaping Datadog’s event-storage backbone. He brings deep distributed-systems and data-engineering expertise across Scala, Java, Go, C++ and modern full‑stack tech (TypeScript/React), having owned critical analytics products at Criteo and realtime observability modules at Corvil. A pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys tackling complex, high-value engineering challenges, he combines hands-on implementation with prior startup experience as a CTO/co‑founder and tech‑lead responsibilities. Pierre also contributes to the open-source DataSketches community, reflecting a commitment to memory-efficient, large-scale analytics algorithms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
A Level General studies, A Level General studies at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de LondresClasse préparatoire aux grandes écoles Mathematics Physics Chemistry, Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles Mathematics Physics Chemistry at Institut supérieur d'électronique et du numériqueBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Dalian Institute of Light IndustryMsc Computer Science, Msc Computer Science at Chongqing UniversityEpitech
French, English
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Github Skills (79)
sketch10
sql10
high-performance10
database10
druid10
kafka10
java10
big-data9
hadoop9
hbase9
python9
apache-druid9
olap9
apache9
spark9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
freakyzoidberg/vertica-hyperloglog
Aug 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
freakyzoidberg/apache-datasketches-go
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Apache datasketches
Contributions:31 PRs, 108 pushes, 26 branches in 2 months
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