Rémi Calixte
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolRémi Calixte is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with eight years of experience building and operating robust back-end systems and DevOps tooling at Datadog. He combines deep systems and monitoring expertise—contributing to the Datadog Agent and its puppet module—with hands-on work on performance-sensitive C/C++ projects like the Snes9x emulator where he added Wayland support. A CentraleSupélec-trained engineer, Rémi has experience designing production infrastructure (OpenStack/Ceph) and automating deployments and observability, enabling configuration via environment variables and improving system init and tracing. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering that spans from low-level display integrations to cloud-native monitoring, and for bringing student-hacker curiosity to enterprise-scale reliability challenges.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Ecole Centrale ParisPreparation Courses, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Preparation Courses, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at Lycée Clémenceau - Reims
English, French, German
Github Skills (29)
apim10
puppeteer10
observability10
c-language10
puppet10
api-design10
gdk10
configuration-management10
device-emulation10
cicd10
gtk10
go10
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cprogramming-language10
emulation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 89 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rémi primarily focused on enhancing the Datadog Agent's functionality and improving its monitoring capabilities. Their contributions included implementing features to improve the status page, adding metrics for payload drops, and integrating HTTP request tracing. Furthermore, they also worked on improving the system's overall performance. They also contributed to the agent's configuration and setup, enabling all configuration options to be set with environment variables and adding system initialization scripts.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/puppet-datadog-agent
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Puppet module to install the Datadog agent
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rémi focused on improving the Datadog agent's configuration and deployment process. They fixed integration configuration paths and permissions within the Puppet module. The user also implemented a Vagrant-based testing environment, enhanced the module's reliability by adding a backup keyserver, and improved documentation. Further contributions included refactoring parameters and implementing support for the Datadog EU site in the reporting configuration.
datadog-agentagentpuppetpuppet-modulepmm
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