Vincent Primault
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolVincent Primault is a senior backend engineer with 14 years of professional experience, currently building observability tooling at Datadog after a long tenure at Salesforce. He holds a PhD in computer science from INSA Lyon and combines deep research experience with practical systems engineering, having transitioned from academia (postdoc and lecturing) into large-scale product development. At Salesforce he progressed from software engineer to lead roles, driving backend services and mentoring teams on reliability and scalability. Vincent is based in Grenoble and brings a measured, research-informed approach to engineering trade-offs, often favoring rigorous design and reproducibility. His profile blends production-grade backend expertise with academic rigor—useful for tackling complex distributed systems and instrumentation challenges.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD degree, Computer Science, PhD degree, Computer Science at INSA Lyon
English, French, German
Github Skills (191)
python10
transifex10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
backend10
javascript10
nosql10
data-engineering10
solr10
scheduler10
code-review10
location10
localization10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zcorrecteurs/monolith-www
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:66 pushes, 9 branches, 1 tag in 4 years
pvcnt/mergeable
Aug 2023 - Jun 2025
The missing inbox for GitHub pull requests
Contributions:12 releases, 9 reviews, 209 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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