Olivier Pomel

Olivier Pomel leads Datadog as its co-founder and CEO, building monitoring and security software for cloud applications. Before Datadog, he led technology at Wireless Generation, developing software for K–12 teachers, and worked as an engineer at IBM Research. He was also one of the original authors of VLC.

Career

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Based in: New York City
Elsewhere

Datadog

Jun 2010 — Present

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

RojuAI

Until Present

Founding Advisor

Taktile

Until Present

Advisor

Wireless Generation

2002 — 2010

Vice President of Technology

Led technology development for education software used by K–12 teachers.

CentraleSupélec

M.S. in Computer Science

Products & media

rtp.vc

Building Datadog Against the Odds

A written conversation with Jules Schwerin on customer research, product teams leading early sales, efficient growth, and delegating through a management team. Recorded in 2023; published in 2025.

datadoghq.com

StatsD, what it is and how it can help you

Pomel’s 2013 technical essay explains application instrumentation, UDP aggregation, and why shared metrics change collaboration between development and operations.

youtube.com

Built in NYC: Olivier Pomel (Datadog) in conversation with Madeline Renbarger

Pomel discusses building Datadog in New York, how customers experiment with AI, and the product and pricing decisions that emerge when new technology meets real workloads.