Valentin Touffet
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Saint-Brès, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolValentin Touffet is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, now working on Datadog’s Alerting Platform. He has led backend architecture at startups like Reelevant—designing high-throughput data sources, workflow engines, and real-time content systems—and earlier drove reliability and microservices at Keymetrics (the team behind PM2). Comfortable across TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Kubernetes and cloud platforms, Valentin pairs hands-on coding with DevOps and mentoring responsibilities. He’s an active open-source contributor, notably integrating the Keymetrics agent into the widely used PM2 process manager and improving OpenAPI/TypeScript tooling in tsoa. Based in Occitania, France, he combines a self-taught ethos with formal training from 42, favoring practical, measurable performance and maintainability gains.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Programmation informatique, Programmation informatique at 42Bac Scientifique SVT Géologie / sciences de la Terre général, Bac Scientifique SVT Géologie / sciences de la Terre général at LycéeDéveloppement web, Développement web at OpenClassrooms
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
type-system10
typescript10
process-management10
nodejs10
typescripts10
api10
pm210
openapi10
apidoc10
typescript-types10
devops9
testing9
monitoring9
automation8
automations8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lukeautry/tsoa
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Build OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs using TypeScript and Node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 26 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the project, focusing on features related to OpenAPI generation and TypeScript code analysis. Their work involved implementing functionality to handle `keyof` types, class method exclusion, and `toJSON` methods within the code. The user also addressed bugs and implemented improvements in the schema generation process, as well as added integration tests.
apicompliantnodejsrestrest-api
Unitech/pm2
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to the integration of the Keymetrics agent within the PM2 process manager, including modifications to the client, API, and configuration files to incorporate agent interaction. They removed sensitive data, such as passwords, from the codebase. Furthermore, the user also addressed testing infrastructure, removing obsolete tests and merging development branch changes.
command-line-toolbalancernode-jsdeploynodejs
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