Thibaud Simonnin
Senior Director, Technical Escalation Engineering
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolThibaud Simonnin is a senior technology leader with eight years of concentrated experience scaling customer-facing engineering teams at Datadog, now serving as Senior Director of Technical Escalation Engineering in New York. He has progressed through solutions and escalation leadership roles, combining deep product-facing technical expertise with operational rigor to resolve high-impact incidents and improve cross-functional processes. Trained as an electronics and IT engineer, Thibaud brings a hands-on systems background—from embedded radio and smartcard work early in his career to modern observability and solution engineering at scale. Known for translating complex technical problems into clear operational playbooks, he balances strategic leadership with a practitioner’s mindset and a track record of building teams that reduce risk and shorten time-to-resolution.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Electronics & IT, Engineer's degree Electronics & IT at ENSSAT - Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées et de TechnologieBachelor's degree Electronique Engineering & Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronique Engineering & Computer Engineering at Université LavalDiplôme Universitaire de Technologie (DUT) Génie Electrique & Informatique Industrielle (GEII), Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie (DUT) Génie Electrique & Informatique Industrielle (GEII) at IUT Villetaneuse - Université Paris XIIIBaccalauréat Scientifique (BAC S) en Science de l'ingénieur (SI), Baccalauréat Scientifique (BAC S) en Science de l'ingénieur (SI) at Lycée Technologique Jean Perrin
French, English, German
Github Skills (4)
hugo9
datadog9
documentation7
javascript3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
DataDog/hiring-engineers
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Technical Exercise
Contributions:1 PR in 1 day
javascripttechnical-exercise
DataDog/documentation
May 2018 - May 2018
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
wikihugodatadogdocumentation-site
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