Vincent Primault
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolVincent Primault is a senior backend engineer with 14 years of professional experience, currently building observability tooling at Datadog after a long tenure at Salesforce. He holds a PhD in computer science from INSA Lyon and combines deep research experience with practical systems engineering, having transitioned from academia (postdoc and lecturing) into large-scale product development. At Salesforce he progressed from software engineer to lead roles, driving backend services and mentoring teams on reliability and scalability. Vincent is based in Grenoble and brings a measured, research-informed approach to engineering trade-offs, often favoring rigorous design and reproducibility. His profile blends production-grade backend expertise with academic rigor—useful for tackling complex distributed systems and instrumentation challenges.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD degree, Computer Science, PhD degree, Computer Science at INSA Lyon
English, French, German
Github Skills (200)
python10
forge10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
extensible10
pip10
elasticsearch10
orchestration10
backend10
javascript10
nosql10
data-engineering10
solr10
scheduler10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zcorrecteurs/monolith-www
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:66 pushes, 9 branches, 1 tag in 4 years
pvcnt/zcorrecteurs
Oct 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 81 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.