Cloud infrastructure
10 Datadog engineering leaders
These ten Datadog engineering leaders hold senior vice president, vice president, senior director and director of engineering roles there, across AI, applications, security, software delivery and profiling teams. Readers can learn from them how a cloud monitoring company organizes engineering across many products built on shared data.
Professionals to explore
01—10Charles Cote
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Datadog
Senior Director of Engineering at Datadog since June 2026, and Director of Engineering at Datadog since February 2024, based in Paris. Cote was Co-Founder of Recare from 2016 to 2023, and at Criteo was a Senior Software Engineer (2015–2016) and a Software Engineer (2012–2014).
Ching-Wei Chen
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Datadog
Director of Engineering at Datadog since July 2025; his profile headline says he leads AI Product Engineering teams. Chen was VP of Engineering at Crossing Minds from 2022 to 2025 and, at Spotify, Director, Machine Learning Engineering (2021–2022) and Product Area Engineering Lead (2018–2021).
David Mitchell
LinkedInExperience: SVP of Engineering · Datadog
SVP of Engineering at Datadog since October 2024, after serving as VP of Engineering at Datadog from 2019 to 2024. Mitchell was CTO at Intersection from 2017 to 2019, a role listed at C-Level in the Engineering and Technical department, and VP of Engineering and Technical Operations at Betterment from 2016 to 2017.
Fernando Mayo Fernández
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Datadog
Senior Director of Engineering at Datadog since September 2024. As Director Of Engineering at Datadog from 2020 to 2024 his profile says he worked on Developer Visibility tooling to help engineering teams troubleshoot. He was Founder & CTO of Undefined Labs (2018–2020), Senior Engineering Manager at Docker, Inc (2015–2017) and Founder & CTO of Tutum, Inc. (2013–2015).
Junaid Ahmed
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Of Engineering · Datadog
Vice President Of Engineering at Datadog since January 2022; his profile says he leads development of the AI, Apps and Software Delivery services, spanning autonomous coding agents, distributed tracing, profiling, metrics, Watchdogs and Synthetics. He was Director Of Engineering at Apple (2020–2022) and General Manager Partner Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft (2005–2020).
Liza Fireman
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Datadog
Senior Director of Engineering at Datadog since April 2024. Fireman was Director Of Engineering at Snowflake from 2022 to 2024, Community Participation Engineering Lead (2021–2022) and Marketplace Integrity Engineering Lead (2017–2021) at Meta, and Engineering Manager, Machine Intelligence, Google at Google from 2016 to 2017.
Marcus Hirt
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Datadog
Director of Engineering at Datadog since March 2019; his profile says he founded the Profiling team, the Dynamic Instrumentation / Live Debugger team, the IDE Integration team and the ML Observability team there. He was Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle from 2008 to 2019 and Engineering Manager at BEA Systems from 2006 to 2008.
Nuno Antunes
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Datadog
Vice President of Engineering at Datadog since April 2022, based in Lisbon, after a year as Senior Director of Engineering at Datadog (2021–2022). Antunes was Vice President Of Engineering at Sqreen from 2020 to 2021 and Vice President of Engineering at OutSystems from 2017 to 2020.
Olivier Bonnet
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Datadog
VP of Engineering at Datadog since November 2025, where his profile says he leads the teams responsible for Security and Software Delivery, among others. His profile headline reads "formerly CTPO @ BlaBlaCar and iCloud @ Apple", and he has been a Sparring Partner at Drysdale Ventures since 2025.
Sesh Nalla
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Datadog
VP of Engineering at Datadog since January 2025; his profile says his Cognitive Systems work focuses on producing and serving intelligence on top of Datadog's data. At Datadog Nalla was also Senior Director of Engineering (2022–2025) and Director of Engineering (2019–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Match the leader's area to your question, for example an AI or applications leader for questions about building AI features, or a profiling or developer tooling leader for observability product questions. Consider the scope each person runs, since practices for a single team differ from those for a multi-product engineering group.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should an engineering organization structure teams that build many products on one shared data platform?
- 02What does it take to add AI features to an existing developer or monitoring product without hurting reliability?
- 03How do engineering leaders run distributed teams across several countries and time zones?
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