Roch Devost
Software Engineer at Datadog
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolRoch Devost is a software engineer in Montreal with 11 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript applications and cloud-native architectures. Currently at Datadog since 2018, he focuses on backend work and has contributed to the widely used dd-trace-js APM client, fixing memory leaks and improving context propagation in Node/Express instrumentation. His background spans real-time systems on AWS/GCP, front-end development, and DevOps, giving him a pragmatic end-to-end view of production services. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs hands-on debugging and performance fixes with designing scalable systems. An early career emphasis on database administration and business intelligence gives him an uncommon appreciation for observability and operational correctness.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Attestation of collegial studies, Information technology programmer-analyst, Attestation of collegial studies, Information technology programmer-analyst at LaSalle College
French, English
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Github Skills (15)
nodejs10
expressjs10
backend10
back-end-development10
debug9
debugging9
performance-optimization8
graphql-js6
kubernetes6
datadog6
instrumentation6
statsd6
telemetry6
trace6
apm6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-js
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Datadog APM client for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:156 releases, 2635 reviews, 1889 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Roch primarily contributed to the backend of the Datadog APM client for Node.js. Their commits focused on bug fixes, specifically addressing memory leaks in the HTTP plugin and issues related to context propagation and route handling within the Express framework. These changes involved modifying code related to HTTP requests, routing, and middleware to ensure correct behavior and prevent memory leaks.
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rochdev/holy-node-box
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Build box for Node >=8 with older versions of gcc and g++.
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 years
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