Benjamin Fernandes

Benjamin Fernandes is an Engineering Director at Datadog, based in Paris, France. He has had a remarkable career trajectory within the company, starting as an intern and rising through the ranks to his current leadership position.1

Career at Datadog

Benjamin joined Datadog in January 2013 as an intern during his gap year in engineering studies. He returned for a full-time position in the New York office the following year.1 His career progression at Datadog includes:

• 2015: Began working on the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) product
• 2017: Promoted to APM Engineering Team Lead
• 2020: Became Engineering Director for APM

In his current role, Benjamin is responsible for managing engineers across Europe for both APM Distributed Tracing and Datadog Error Tracking.1

Expertise and Contributions

Throughout his time at Datadog, Benjamin has developed expertise in:

• Building large-scale distributed systems
• Working with customers and product managers
• Developing features for the Datadog platform

As an intern, he made significant contributions, including building a new processing pipeline to rasterize SVG images to PNG. This system, along with others developed by interns, has grown substantially and is still in use today.1

Education and Background

Benjamin attended École Centrale de Paris for his education.2 Before joining Datadog, he had experience as a Software Engineer at Mobile Devices Ingenierie and as a Web System Administrator at Luna Atra.

Personal Attributes

Benjamin is described as passionate about software engineering and dedicated to building the right solutions.2 He values Datadog's core principles of being open, pragmatic, and honest, and appreciates the balance between a professional and friendly work environment.1

Benjamin Fernandes can be found on social media platforms such as Twitter, where his handle is @LotharSee.3