About
Alexis Lê-Quôc co-founded Datadog with Olivier Pomel in 2010 and has been its CTO ever since — through the 2019 Nasdaq IPO, entry to the S&P 500 in 2025, and a climb to roughly $84 billion in market value on about $4.5 billion of annual revenue. The two met as undergraduates at École Centrale Paris and spent nine years together at Wireless Generation, where he was director of operations running infrastructure that served more than four million students across 49 states. An original member of the devops movement, he is a fixture at Monitorama, DevOpsDays and AWS re:Invent.
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Co-founded Datadog with Olivier Pomel in New York in 2010, after News Corp acquired Wireless Generation.
- Education
- Met Pomel as an undergraduate at École Centrale Paris; the pair then worked together for nine years.
- Communities
- A member of the original devops movement and a regular speaker at AWS re:Invent, Monitorama, DevOpsDays, Velocity and PyCon.
- More
- At Wireless Generation he was director of operations, building the team and infrastructure that served more than four million students across 49 states. Became a billionaire alongside Pomel in 2020; each holds over 2% of Datadog's common stock.
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Co-founder & CTO at Datadog
Intro paths
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Co-founders at Datadog

Experience
- DatadogCo-founder & CTOcurrent2010 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
- Wireless GenerationDirector of live operations2007 — 2010
- Wireless GenerationSenior Software Architect2004 — 2006
- France Telecom R&DR&D Engineer2002 — 2004
- SilicongoSenior Software Engineer2001
- NeomeoSenior Software Engineer2000 — 2001
- IBMR&D Engineer1997 — 2000
Education
- CentraleSupélecBachelor + Master, Computer Science1994 — 1997
- Lycée Pasteur, Besançon1989 — 1992
- Japan Society
Skills & more
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Agile MethodologiesDevOpsSystem MonitoringIT OperationsMySQLMachine LearningPerlCloud ComputingUnixDatabasesGitWeb ServicesLanguages English · French · German · Japanese · Spanish
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Podcasts & interviews
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Frequently asked questions
- Where does Alexis Le-Quoc work?
- Alexis Le-Quoc is Co-founder & CTO at Datadog.
- What check size does Alexis Le-Quoc write?
- Alexis Le-Quoc typically writes checks of $5K – $50K.
- What companies did Alexis Le-Quoc found?
- Alexis Le-Quoc founded Datadog.
Paths to reach Alexis
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Together at DatadogAlexis: Co-founder & CTO
Together at Wireless GenerationAlexis: Director of live operations
Together at IBMAlexis: R&D Engineer
Founder mafias
CentraleSupélec mafia36
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
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Same school
Also attended CentraleSupélec102
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Shared employers
Also worked at Wireless Generation2
Also worked at France Telecom R&D62
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