Sylvain Baubeau
Staff Engineer at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Baubeau is a Staff Engineer based in Paris with 18 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and infrastructure software. He blends entrepreneurial instincts from early R&D and technical director roles with deep systems expertise gained at Red Hat and Datadog, where he focuses on runtime security, observability and reliable system probes. Sylvain is an active open-source contributor to prominent projects like Trivy and the Datadog Agent, bringing practical improvements to vulnerability scanning, container storage drivers, and network flow analysis. His background in decentralized virtual desktop solutions and OpenStack containerization shows a strong grasp of distributed storage, networking and automated deployments. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that improve robustness (DNS, file and directory monitoring) and for integrating cloud provider services and serializers to simplify complex system interactions. He combines hands-on backend/DevOps engineering with leadership in R&D teams, favoring clean APIs and maintainable code in large-scale, production environments.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Pierre and Marie Curie University
English
Github Skills (58)
apim10
api-rest10
docker10
container10
system-programming10
apidoc10
api-design10
debian10
restful-api10
ebpf10
amazon-elasticsearch10
packaging10
storage10
object-storage10
containerization10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
skydive-project/skydive
Jan 2016 - Jan 2022
An open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 23 reviews, 1730 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Sylvain's contributions focus on implementing core networking features within the Skydive project, as evidenced by the modification of low-level network code and interaction with network-related data structures. Their work involves enhancing the handling of network traffic through the addition of new predicates such as "CONTAINS" and modifications related to ICMP packets within the flow analysis. The user has made improvements to handle the processing of packets by using various layers.
traffic-analysismonitoringreal-timenetwork-topologynetwork-monitoring
DataDog/datadog-agent
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1118 reviews, 418 commits, 708 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent, focusing on enhancing the runtime security module. Their commits involve refactoring and improving the core functionalities, such as handling DNS operations, enhancing directory monitoring, and handling file operations. The work also included refactoring code to use dedicated serializers and improve support for the underlying system call interfaces, indicating a strong focus on improving the system probe's reliability and performance.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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