Raphaël Charpenet

Raphaël Charpenet is a Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog, based in Paris, France. Prior to his current role, he spent four years at Criteo, where he served as a Lead Software Engineer managing a team of 15 developers focused on machine learning infrastructure. Charpenet began his career as a backend engineer at Amazon Web Services, contributing to the early development of cloud storage solutions and scaling distributed systems for enterprise clients. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from École Polytechnique, where he specialized in artificial intelligence and data architecture. Throughout his career, he has successfully led multiple high-impact technical projects, including the migration of legacy databases that improved system latency by 40 percent. Charpenet currently focuses on building scalable cloud monitoring tools and optimizing backend system performance for global enterprise software applications.