Romain Berger
Software Engineer at Datadog
France
Summary
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Top SchoolRomain Berger is a seasoned software engineer based in France with 13 years of experience building user-facing applications and backend systems, currently focused on Synthetics at Datadog. He has transitioned from front-end roles—rewriting large-scale isomorphic apps with React and leading front-end guilds—to backend engineering work enhancing Datadog’s Terraform provider and synthetics test capabilities. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s shipped features spanning UI, Electron desktop apps, Node/Django services, and infrastructure-as-code integrations. An active open-source contributor, Romain added French localization to 24pullrequests and implemented multi-step API steps, retries, and client-certificate support in DataDog’s Terraform provider, reflecting both product sensibility and attention to robustness. Collected experience in media and consumer products gives him a practical understanding of performance, internationalization, and end-to-end testing in production environments.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Professionnelle CISPM Multimédia, Licence Professionnelle CISPM Multimédia at IUT de TarbesDUT Techniques de Commercialisation, DUT Techniques de Commercialisation at IUT Tarbes
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
4,548reputation
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104answers
41questions
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Github Skills (30)
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
rails10
terraform10
ruby10
terraformer10
go10
api10
api-design9
restful-api9
testing9
rails-i18n9
api-rest9
internationalization9
php9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/terraform-provider-datadog
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Terraform Datadog provider
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 84 commits, 71 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Romain significantly contributed to the Datadog Terraform provider, focusing on enhancing the synthetics test resources. Their work involved adding new features like retries, DNS server configurations, and client certificate options, along with improvements to test configurations and the implementation of API steps for multi-step tests. They also contributed to the addition of new assertions and local variables within browser tests, expanding functionality and improving the provider's capabilities.
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24pullrequests/24pullrequests
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
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Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the internationalization of the application by adding French language support. This involved modifying configuration files to include French as an available locale and updating application helper files. Furthermore, the user integrated the changes by merging commits and updating various models and controller files. The contributions also touched on the user interface and other supporting files within the application.
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