Guillaume Bort

I’m a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Datadog, best known for creating Play, the web framework that made building applications with Java & Scala easier

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With 25 years of experience in software engineering, I’ve designed large-scale systems, APIs, platforms, and distributed systems. I also enjoy working on user-facing applications, front-end development, and UI design.

Currently, I focus on Datadog’s data infrastructure and platform, supporting its observability data pipelines.

Prior to Datadog:

  1. At Criteo, I worked on the infrastructure and platform handling petabytes of data for analytics and machine learning (Big Data).

  2. I co-founded Zengularity with my friend Habib—later acquired by EY Fabernovel.

  3. I created and launched Prismic.io with my friend Sadek.

  4. I helped companies like LinkedIn and Apple integrate Play into their stacks.

  5. I contributed to the launch of Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), bringing a Scala web framework to the stack.

  6. I worked at INRIA in a research team focused on distributed teams.