Xavier Lucas
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolXavier Lucas is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lyon with 11 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native infrastructure and observability tooling. At Datadog he has advanced the Datadog Agent—contributing features, resilience fixes, Kubernetes integrations, and build/deployment improvements—demonstrating strong backend and DevOps expertise on a widely used open-source project. Previously at OVH and Worldline he evolved from software and systems roles into senior DevOps positions, blending hands-on coding with operational rigor. He excels at diagnosing networking and configuration issues in production, and at turning those insights into durable automation and tooling. Trained at INSA Lyon with a master’s in computer science, he pairs academic foundations with pragmatic engineering that reduces toil and improves system reliability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
French, English
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Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
nginx10
observability9
proxy9
configuration-management9
redirect9
logging9
tracer8
trace8
api8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 177 reviews, 98 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Xavier contributed to the Datadog Agent by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the system's reliability and performance. They added explicit tagging functionality and improved configuration parsing to log errors effectively. Furthermore, the user worked on the integration with Kubernetes, enabling the collection of events and configuring timeouts, and addressed networking issues by skipping irrelevant network modes for Docker IPs. Additionally, the user made changes to the build and deployment processes.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
xlucas/go-vmguestlib
May 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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