Summary
Guillaume Daix is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Paris with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and engineering organizations, currently leading teams at Datadog. He played a key role in taking Datadog’s Application Security Monitoring from acquisition-stage product to general availability in 12 months, leading a cross-language libraries team covering seven runtimes. A Node.js enthusiast with deep hands-on background in microservices, distributed stacks and observability, he blends technical ownership with people and project management—hiring, career coaching and setting up processes and tooling. He also serves on the board of Ekip, underscoring an interest in product and company-level strategy beyond day-to-day engineering. Notably, he’s repeatedly led multi-language agent and instrumentation efforts, a niche that combines low-level integration work with product-grade reliability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Informatique et système d'information, Ingénierie informatique, Ingénieur Informatique et système d'information, Ingénierie informatique at Université de Technologie de Troyes
Polytech Dijon
English, Spanish