Olivier Pomel

Olivier Pomel is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Datadog. Prior to founding Datadog, he built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP, Technology for Wireless Generation, growing the development team from a handful to close to 100 of the best engineers in NYC until the company's acquisition by News Corp. Before Wireless Generation, he held software engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. He is an original author of the VLC media player. Pomel holds an MS in Computer Scinece from the Ecole Centrale Paris.