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Alexis Le-Quoc

Founder

Co-founder & CTO at Datadog

New York, NY

Writes $5K – $50K checks · typically $25K

FoundedDatadog

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

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Co-founders at Datadog

OPOlivier Pomel
Olivier PomelCo-founder & CEO

Experience

  1. DatadogCo-founder & CTOcurrent2010 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
  2. Wireless GenerationDirector of live operations2007 — 2010
  3. Wireless GenerationSenior Software Architect2004 — 2006
  4. France Telecom R&DR&D Engineer2002 — 2004
  5. SilicongoSenior Software Engineer2001
  6. NeomeoSenior Software Engineer2000 — 2001
  7. IBMR&D Engineer1997 — 2000

Education

  1. CentraleSupélecBachelor + Master, Computer Science1994 — 1997
  2. Lycée Pasteur, Besançon1989 — 1992
  3. Japan Society

Skills & more

Python56Linux63Java20SQL9Erlang3IP4Storage Area Networks1Synchronization2Scalability11Ruby10Bash13Distributed Systems26
+12 moreAgile MethodologiesDevOpsSystem MonitoringIT OperationsMySQLMachine LearningPerlCloud ComputingUnixDatabasesGitWeb Services

Languages English · French · German · Japanese · Spanish

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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.

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