Etienne Brodu
Senior Research Engineering at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolEtienne Brodu is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently focused on research engineering at Datadog in Paris after progressing through multiple engineering roles there. Trained as an Ingénieur Informatique at INSA Lyon with interaction design study at Chalmers, he blends rigorous engineering foundations with user-centered thinking. His career moves from web development and startup CTO responsibilities to production-scale software and research work reflect a rare mix of hands-on delivery and technical leadership. Comfortable across the full stack, he brings practical experience shipping observability and backend systems at scale while retaining an entrepreneurial mindset from founding WhatWeFund. An understated strength is his academic-to-industry trajectory—PhD-level research experience turned into pragmatic engineering impact in fast-moving product teams.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Informatique, Ingénieur Informatique at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonInteraction Design, Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology
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Github Skills (188)
hugo10
windows10
http10
npm-package10
terraform10
http-client10
esbuild-plugin10
javascript10
client-library10
continuous-testing10
linux10
laravel10
http-request10
js10
nodejs-client10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
etnbrd/gatsby-plugin-git
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Gatsby plugin which checkout a repository e.g. to populate content
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years
gatsby-plugin
etnbrd/flx-compiler
Jul 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
compilerjavascriptexecutiontransform
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