Olivier Pomel

Pomel met Alexis Lê-Quôc as an undergraduate at Ecole Centrale Paris, where both earned master's degrees in computer science. He worked for nine years at Wireless Generation as VP of Technology, growing the development team from a handful to nearly 100 engineers. Before Wireless Generation, he held software engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. He is an original author of the VLC media player. His founding philosophy was that developers and operations teams needed a shared data platform to reduce the friction between rapid development and system stability.

Olivier Pomel is the co-founder and CEO of Datadog, Inc. He has served as CEO since the company's founding in 2010. Pomel holds an MS in Computer Science from Ecole Centrale Paris. Before founding Datadog, he was VP of Technology at Wireless Generation, where he grew the engineering team to nearly 100 people before the company's acquisition by News Corp. He is an original author of the VLC media player, one of the world's most widely used open-source multimedia frameworks. Pomel has led Datadog through its IPO in 2019, its addition to the S&P 500 in 2025, and its evolution from infrastructure monitoring to a unified observability and security platform. He is known for his technical depth, customer-centric approach, and commitment to developer experience. Forbes estimates his net worth in the billions, reflecting his significant ownership stake in Datadog.