Remy Chantenay
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRemy Chantenay is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and leading teams across startups and large tech organizations. He has a strong track record of shipping end-to-end products—from bootstrapped Android apps to mission-critical backend services powering Zalando’s mobile traffic—and has scaled teams and infrastructure through high-traffic events and cost-saving migrations. As a former Head of Engineering who helped secure a $3.5M seed round and a Principal Engineer at Zalando, he blends hands-on development, architecture, and people leadership. He contributes to open-source mobile projects (notably Android work on the Omnivore read-it-later app) and is comfortable across cloud-native serverless, backend services in Go/Kotlin, and native Android. Based in Berlin, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong communication skills and a penchant for turning complex operational challenges into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Université de Bretagne OccidentaleTechnical's degree Computer Programming, Technical's degree Computer Programming at Lycée CHEVROLLIERNational Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
English, French, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
ui-design10
android-development10
compose10
uid10
front-end-development10
mobile10
reader9
swift6
location6
android6
google-app-engine6
terraform6
java6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
omnivore-app/omnivore
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Remy primarily contributed to the Android application within the Omnivore project. Their commits focused on implementing UI elements for features such as a highlight color palette for the web reader and an edit info sheet. They addressed state management issues in the Add Link sheet, and added swipe actions in the library view. They also added Literata and Fraunces fonts and fixed the reader scrollbar visibility.
read-it-laterlogseqproductivitybookmarksreader
remychantenay/remychantenay.github.io
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Portfolio
Contributions:2 PRs, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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