About Olivier Pomel
Olivier Pomel is the Co-founder and CEO of Datadog, a cloud monitoring company he co-founded in 2010. He previously served as Vice President of Technology at Wireless Generation, where he built data systems for K-12 education. Pomel is recognized for scaling Datadog into a multi-billion dollar public company with minimal capital burn.
Career

Co-founder, CEO
Building the next generation of tools for DevOps teams.
Datadog brings all IT systems, applications and services in one place, and helps teams make sense of it all.

Education

N/A
Skills
Core technical and professional competencies inferred from career trajectory and leadership roles.
Technical Skills
Cloud Monitoring
Distributed Systems
Software Architecture
DevOps Tools
Data Infrastructure Design
Scalability
Leadership & Business
Strategic Leadership
Team Building & Management
Product Vision
Business Scaling
Minimal Capital Burn Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Domain Expertise
K-12 Education Data Systems
Software Engineering
Open Source Contribution
Domains
Primary
Cloud Computing, Observability & Monitoring, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Secondary
K-12 Education Technology, Data Systems, Software Development
Tags
Personality
Visionary, Data-Driven, Pragmatic, Technical Leader, Founder
Focus
Scaling Businesses, Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Minimal Burn
Frequently Asked Questions
Olivier Pomel is the Co-founder and CEO of Datadog, a cloud monitoring company he scaled to a $40 billion valuation with minimal capital burn.
Before Datadog, he was the Vice President of Technology at Wireless Generation from 2002 to 2010, focusing on K-12 education data systems.
Datadog scaled to a multi-billion dollar valuation with a reported minimal capital burn of approximately $25 million.
Datadog is a public company with a reported market valuation of approximately $40 billion.
He graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris, a prestigious French engineering institution.




