William Dauchy
Netherlands
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RockstarWilliam Dauchy is a pragmatic backend and systems engineer with 16 years’ experience focused on performance, reliability, and operational automation. Based in the Netherlands, he specializes in C, Python and UNIX shell work across build systems, monitoring integrations and load-balancing infrastructure. His open-source contributions span notable projects—HAProxy, rsyslog, Datadog integrations and the cloud-focused OSv—where he has fixed subtle bugs, plugged memory leaks, standardized build/deploy scripts and extended monitoring and systemd support. Equally comfortable improving runtime performance and cleaning up deployment pipelines, he brings a disciplined attention to code quality and maintainability. Colleagues value his ability to explain complex ideas clearly and to translate operational needs into robust, repeatable engineering changes.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (53)
debugging10
json10
debug10
data-collection10
python10
cassandra10
amazon-elasticsearch10
configuration-management10
load-balancing10
c1110
c1710
chef-client10
elasticsearchquery10
automation10
prometheus10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudius-systems/osv
Aug 2014 - May 2015
OSv, a new operating system for the cloud.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the project by modifying and improving the scripts used for building, testing, and deploying the OSv operating system. Their work involved fixing indentation issues, cleaning up whitespaces to adhere to coding standards, removing unused imports, and reordering the import statements and main functions. They also unified and standardized strings across the ec2-gc scripts, indicating a focus on code quality, consistency, and potentially improving the maintainability and automation aspects of the project's infrastructure and build processes.
operating-systemoperatinglinuxosv
DataDog/integrations-core
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 11 commits, 22 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the Datadog integrations-core repository by modifying and adding features related to the HAProxy integration. Their work included fixing typos, adding support for new HAProxy versions (2.3, 2.4, and 2.5), and updating metric definitions to align with the latest HAProxy versions. The user also added a build_info metric and metrics related to stick tables and listeners, showcasing a focus on improving the integration's functionality and monitoring capabilities. These commits demonstrate a significant understanding of the HAProxy integration and its compatibility with Datadog's monitoring tools.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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