Florent Clarret
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolFlorent Clarret is a senior software engineer with eight years of backend-focused experience and a pragmatic, polyglot approach to building reliable systems. Currently at Datadog, he specializes in strengthening CI/CD, testing and integration infrastructure—evidenced by contributions to Datadog Agent integrations and build/test improvements. He values automation to eliminate repetitive work, championing scripts and pipeline enhancements that reduce cognitive load and speed delivery. A strong proponent of code quality, documentation, and testability, he pairs engineering rigor with collaborative team practices and mentorship experience from academia and OpenClassrooms. His open-source work on widely used projects like PyGithub and Datadog integrations demonstrates comfort extending APIs and adding practical features for real-world observability. Based in Tours, France, he blends teaching experience with hands-on engineering, preferring pragmatic tool choice over ideology to solve problems efficiently.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Computer science, DUT, Computer science at IUT de LensEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Lodz University of TechnologyEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Polytech Tours
French, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (19)
monitoring10
docker10
integrate10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
intergration10
integrations10
dockers10
cicd10
pygithub10
api10
github-api10
datadog10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2568 reviews, 628 commits, 2294 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Florent primarily focused on improving the build and test infrastructure of the Datadog Agent integrations. Contributions included removing Datadog licenses from community files and updating tests for validation. They also implemented a fix for typo detection in configuration field aliases within the Datadog base library, and modified docker environment configurations. These changes indicate involvement in testing, CI/CD, and overall code quality improvements for the Agent's core integrations.
datadogdatadog-agentddintegrations
DataDog/integrations-extras
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:253 reviews, 27 commits, 129 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Florent primarily contributed to adding and configuring a new Gitea integration for the Datadog Agent. This involved implementing the integration, updating configuration files, and adding associated metrics and service checks. The user also made changes to the testing framework, including adding tests to test the integration. Additionally, the user worked on removing licensing information, and bumping dependency versions.
datadog
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.