Alexis Lê-Quôc

Lê-Quôc met Olivier Pomel as an undergraduate at Ecole Centrale Paris. He worked for nine years at Wireless Generation as Director of Operations, building the infrastructure that served more than four million students in 49 states. As a member of the original DevOps movement, he held software engineering positions at IBM Research, Neomeo, and Orange. His founding philosophy was that operational elegance and technical efficiency could be achieved through unified observability that brought together metrics, logs, and traces in a single platform.

Alexis Lê-Quôc is the co-founder and CTO of Datadog, Inc. He has served as CTO since the company's founding in 2010. Lê-Quôc holds an MS in Computer Science from Ecole Centrale Paris. Before founding Datadog, he was Director of Operations at Wireless Generation, where he built infrastructure serving over four million students across 49 states. As a member of the original DevOps movement, he has presented on cloud monitoring and server performance at conferences including AWS re:Invent, Monitorama, DevOpsDays, Velocity, and PyCon. Lê-Quôc has been instrumental in Datadog's technical architecture, overseeing the development of the unified data platform that correlates metrics, traces, logs, and security signals. He owns approximately 3% of Datadog shares and became a billionaire in 2020.