Datadog Ambassadors

Alvaro is an Observability Specialist with five years of experience helping organizations improve visibility, reliability, and collaboration across teams.

He is passionate about community-building and helped found the Datadog User Group in Brazil. Alvaro also regularly publishes articles about observability and the Datadog ecosystem on his Medium (https://alvaroabreu.medium.com/). With interests spanning human behavior, innovation, and software engineering, he strives to make observability practices more accessible to organizations.

As a platform architect, Martin primarily supports workloads performing batch compute, recommendation pipelines, and other functions for data science. Prior to his current role, he was a Technical Lead at Twilio and the CTO of iCracked, a YC- & a16z-backed venture. Martin is originally from the UK and currently resides in Austin after an eight-year stint in San Francisco. Outside of work, he enjoys skydiving, traveling, cooking, guitar, and reverse engineering.

Among his contributions to the Datadog community, Martin has helped create and deliver an on-demand webinar that showed how his company Stitch Fix optimized cloud costs with the help of Datadog.

Toli is a Software Engineering Practitioner who believes that learning and working together are catalysts for high-performing software-first teams who care about how their software serves their customers.

Toli’s career began in the field of maths and physics, which led him into the world of software engineering, where he spent his formative first few years learning the craft while writing algorithms for solving large-scale “travelling-sales-person” problems across the globe. He has since worked with Brent from The Phoenix Project for a B2B energy company, the initial core team at cinch to build the fastest-growing unicorn in UK startup history, and is currently helping Flipdish build the next generation of restaurant tech.

Throughout this journey, Toli fell in love with DevOps, Observability, and Team Topologies, while he discovered a new passion for serverless, event-driven socio-technical architectural paradigms and product thinking.

Jean is a Principal Software Engineer focused on building secure, observable, and scalable platforms.

He leads projects related to APIs, cloud infrastructure, and developer experience, supporting hundreds of engineers in highly regulated environments.

His work connects observability, security, compliance, and automation, with a strong focus on making production readiness easier for engineering teams.

Jean regularly speaks and writes about platform engineering, cloud operations, and software development in large-scale environments.

With more than fifteen years of diverse IT experience, Marcel now focuses on cloud-native solutions and developer experience. After working as a Cloud Engineer at andsafe, he now leads product strategy for the company’s internal developer platform. In this role, Marcel builds scalable solutions that simplify workflows and help teams move faster in the cloud.

Beyond his technical leadership, Marcel is an active contributor within the German Datadog community. He helped found the Datadog User Group Berlin and has organized quarterly meetups to facilitate networking and support knowledge sharing.

Marcel is also a frequent speaker at tech conferences, where he shares his insights on platform engineering, architectural principles, and developer experience.

Hisatomo is a Principal Engineer at Nulab in Fukuoka, Japan, where he leads the company’s SRE, FinOps, and Security domains.

With more than 15 years of experience as an SRE in both startups and large enterprises, Hisatomo was recognized as a 2023 Japan AWS All Certifications Engineer and Japan AWS Top Engineer.

In early 2025, he led the Datadog rollout for a mission-critical workload at Nulab, and he continues to drive Datadog adoption across the organization. Alongside his work at Nulab, he also serves as an SRE and technical advisor to several Japanese technology companies, helping teams improve reliability, cloud operations, and observability practices.

Hisatomo has spoken at Datadog Live Tokyo and regularly shares operational insights through talks and blog posts about topics such as Cloud Cost Management and Bits AI SRE. He is also a founding member of the Fukuoka chapter of JDDUG (Japan Datadog User Group).

Outside of work, Hisatomo enjoys cooking for his family and remains deeply enthusiastic about technology, cloud operations, and the Datadog community.

Santiago enables teams in the Volkswagen Group to migrate workloads to Cloud environments as part of digitalization. As a Principal Cloud Architect, he is responsible for the cloud migration strategy, develops standards, and fosters the adoption of Datadog world-wide. His overarching objective is to develop architectures that optimize through standardization and automation the performance of engineering teams across the group.

In the scope of Datadog, his team has standardized the rollout and usage of Datadog for different types of applications running in AWS. Moreover, he built a governance framework that enforces compliance for rolling out a multi-org Datadog setup in the Volkswagen Group. Outside of work, he is passionate about traveling and a professional sailing skipper.

I am Divya Gupta Arora, currently serving as an Engineering Manager at Expedia Group. I have the privilege of leading a highly skilled and dedicated team focused on leveraging technology to enhance the travel experience. My expertise spans a wide array of technologies, including Kotlin, Java, GraphQL, AWS, Datadog, Angular, Git, and microservices. In addition to my technical proficiency, I actively contribute to architectural design, people management, and product development, further enriching my skill set. With over a decade of industry experience, I have had the opportunity to work across various domains, including hospitality, travel tech, education, real estate, and finance. I take pride in my contributions to the field of Swarm Intelligence, with around 10 research papers published in renowned international journals. Additionally, I am an avid writer, with several blogs that explore emerging trends and share valuable insights. You can find me engaging actively on Medium and LinkedIn, where I eagerly welcome connections and conversations with fellow professionals. Beyond my professional pursuits, I have a deep-rooted passion for travel, which aligns perfectly with my role. On a personal note, I am also a professionally trained classical dancer, combining my love for the arts with my technical expertise.

You can read more on some of my contributions:

• My 10 months as a Datadog Ambassador
• Datadog Diaries: Seven Months of Innovation and Community
• From Searching in Haystacks to Monitoring with Datadog: Lessons Learned in Application Performance

Mauricio is a mobile engineer and Android developer with a deep passion for improving observability, strengthening reliability, and understanding what really happens inside mobile apps.

At Mercado Libre, he leads mobile observability, SRE, and incident management initiatives focused on improving the reliability and performance of native applications used by millions of users.

His work sits at the intersection of mobile engineering, observability, and incident response, with a focus on logs, traces, metrics, OpenTelemetry, startup performance, and error tracking.

Before focusing on observability and reliability, Mauricio built Android applications, primarily with Kotlin. That hands-on experience still shapes his approach today, which emphasizes practical solutions, developer experience, and tools that help engineers resolve real production incidents.

He enjoys sharing what he learns with the community through talks and workshops about mobile observability, traces and spans, startup performance, and incident management.

He especially enjoys the kind of debugging where the answer is hidden somewhere between a trace, a crash, a metric, and a user session.

Shota is a Lead Robotics Engineer at newmo, Inc., working on autonomous driving software, sensor pipelines, and the telemetry stack that makes robotaxis debuggable in production.

An aerospace engineer by training and a platform engineer by practice, Shota views traces, metrics, and structured signals as core infrastructure.

As a Datadog and OpenTelemetry practitioner, he focuses on bringing cloud-native observability practices to Physical AI systems and robot foundation models. Shota spoke at DASH 2025 and continues to share his work through talks and writing.

Ariane is a Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on observability using Datadog. She has experience in high-availability environments and a deep technical background in Kubernetes, multi-cloud environments, monitoring, dashboards, and incident response operations.

Ariane is particularly interested in using metrics, logs, and traces to better understand user behavior. She also enjoys transforming complex technical data into dashboards that communicate business value and impact. Her goal is to help organizations move from reactive incident response to more proactive reliability practices.

At Grupo JCA, Ariane is leading initiatives to improve observability through roadmap development and Datadog best practices.

Beyond her day-to-day work, Ariane is deeply involved in technology communities, especially The Developer’s Conference (TDC), where she contributes as a Technical Committee member, speaker, and Trail Coordinator.

I’m a young entrepreneur that has been in the IT industry for over 10 years. I help businesses improve their infrastructure: migrating them to the cloud, improving their cybersecurity posture and providing them with the highest level of observability available on the market. With Datadog, I guide teams on the right path to optimize the performance of their services, reducing costs, improving reliability, their overall user experience as well as finding logical reasons for what seemed to be impossible problems.

I’ve recently started a technical blog that gives insights into technical challenges that I’ve come upon and how different tools can help you tackle them. For example:

• How Datadog helps your company reduce cloud costs, improve performance and user experience with APM + Profiler

The only downside is that my customers have to withstand my dad jokes (and I’m not a dad yet…). Their security systems didn’t sniff that packet!

Oh! And I’ve always been a dog person (although now I also have two cats).

Takashi lives in Sapporo, Japan, and works at SMS Co., Ltd., where he develops SaaS products for care service providers.

When he first joined SMS, Takashi worked as an SRE, using Datadog to design the company’s monitoring architecture. As part of that work, he also implemented observability practices and promoted Datadog adoption across teams.

More recently, he transitioned to a product development team, where he has been integrating Datadog early in the development process through custom APM instrumentation and improved on-call triage with Bits AI.

With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Juliano is a passionate tech leader and coder who thrives on complex project management and high-performance delivery. He has led teams in various locations worldwide, combining leadership with hands-on coding skills in Java, .Net C#, Go, and Node.js. He has extensive experience in cloud-based environments, utilizing AWS, GCP, and Azure.

As a Technical Manager on the Cloud and Platform team at Mercado Libre, Juliano was part of the team responsible for the Mercado Libre Internal Developer Platform - FURY, its services, and resources used by over 15,000 developers. He helped assemble and mentor a team of platform engineers and full cycle developers, working with NERDs passionate about what they do. He also got involved with the community at events, helping to build a people-focused ecosystem and a terrific work environment.

Diego is an experienced tech executive with a track record across LATAM and EMEA, having worked on both the customer and partner sides of the technology industry across multiple markets.

He leads Darede in Europe, an AWS and Datadog Premier partner focused on cloud computing, data and AI, observability, and security. Diego works with organizations operating in complex environments to implement cloud-based solutions that improve software delivery and customer experience.

Community work is also central to Diego’s work. As leader of the AWS & Datadog User Group in Lisbon, he is committed to strengthening the Portuguese tech ecosystem through meetups, knowledge sharing, and the kind of honest conversations that no documentation can replace.

I’m a Senior Staff Reliability Engineer at Zendesk. My team is responsible for capacity management, infrastructure rightsizing, building sophisticated observability, running performance workshops, and ensuring a large, complex system is up and running reliably and cost efficiently.

My team plays a key role in incident response to performance and capacity-related outages. That would not be possible without Datadog. With full confidence I can say that Datadog is in the core of our observability stack. My team runs observability workshops and keeps Datadog integration up to date. It helps us to proactively detect and prevent customer impact but when it does happen we spend not more than 15 seconds to figure out why. Datadog Logs, APM, and metrics are all interconnected to facilitate troubleshooting within seconds, neither minutes nor hours. I also contribute to Zendesk Engineering and Nginx blogs, publish with USENIX Login magazine and present Zendesk at several tech conferences and online webinars.

Ashley is a senior devops engineer and innovator with a passion for problem solving and stability. With almost 6 years of experience at Toyota Connected North America, she has played a crucial role in the infrastructure for their Telematics Service Platform. Known for her expertise in Datadog’s platform, Ashley is always open to sharing insights and best practices, and has spoken at DASH twice.

Ashley also enjoys enriching her community by involvement with the Women in Tech program at Toyota Connected and mentoring a high school FIRST Robotics team. Outside of engineering, she enjoys dancing, crochet, and reading.

Nathan is a Senior Security Engineer at Riot Games and part of the company’s Security Operations team.

With 6 years of experience in cybersecurity, his work spans detection engineering, threat hunting, DevSecOps, incident response, and threat intelligence. He also plays a key role in managing Riot’s SIEM and SOAR platforms.

Outside of security, Nathan has three cats and once coached professional Overwatch.

Mike Stemle brings 25 years of experience to his role as a software professional, along with 27 years of active involvement in the open-source community. He specializes in troubleshooting, integrating different technologies, and spreading a healthy love of legacy code. Beyond his professional pursuits, his life is enriched by his wife, Krista, and their three sons.

Among Mike’s contributions to the Datadog community, he has authored the Datadog Service Catalog Metadata Provider custom GitHub Action, which is freely available in the GitHub Marketplace.

Suraj is a seasoned cloud consultant with specialized expertise in monitoring, particularly within the Datadog domain. His role involves assisting businesses in optimizing performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, all while empowering them to extract valuable insights from their data.

Within the Datadog community, Suraj has made notable contributions. He’s developed a sample Java Spring Boot application tailored for use with Datadog APM and authored technical pieces on Datadog for the Towards AWS blog. Learn more here:

• Datadog API Key Rotation on AWS
• Running Datadog as a SideCar on AWS ECS Fargate
• Datadog Gameday on GitHub

Furthermore, he’s curated a comprehensive Datadog certification course available on the Udemy platform. This course has already proven immensely beneficial, with numerous users successfully certifying themselves. For those aiming to obtain Datadog certification, Suraj’s course provides a valuable resource.

• Datadog Fundamental Practice Exam
• Datadog Logging Practice Exam

Willian has always found a home on the “Ops” side, serving in roles such as SysAdmin, DevOps, and SRE. Currently, he dedicates his efforts to helping engineers use Datadog to better diagnose and resolve issues within complex environments.

In line with his mission, Willian is the co-founder of Appoena, a consultancy in Brazil specializing in observability. Through Appoena, he is also the co-instructor of an online course for mastering observability with Datadog.

Nick is the principal engineer and co-founder of NoBS, a Datadog Premier Partner.

Before specializing in observability, Nick held roles in database administration, infrastructure capacity management, application development, and data analytics. Nick has built SRE teams at multiple organizations, helping improve business stability through closer collaboration among product, software, and platform teams.

Today, Nick focuses on observability education through blog posts, practical guides, and webinars, while also working directly with customers to improve their observability practices. Nick began working with Datadog while leading the platform’s evaluation, purchase, and implementation at Wayfair. Since then, Nick has spoken at DASH several times and helped more than 250 companies on-board or improve their use of Datadog.

Tanya is a cloud engineer with a strong interest in observability, AI, and serverless technologies.

After returning to school as a mature student and transitioning from a career in biotech, Tanya began building and supporting enterprise applications.

She is an active member of tech user groups and the broader cloud community, having spoken at technology conferences about topics such as observability for serverless solutions.

Tanya is passionate about sharing her experiences, connecting with other technologists, and supporting local and global cloud communities.

Outside of work, she enjoys reading, writing, science fiction, nature, and travel.

Changhyeon Yoon works in Frontend and DevOps. He uses React.js and Flutter.

He is interested in UI/UX monitoring, CI/CD optimization, and error tracking to provide stable and pleasant services to users.

He is active in the AWS local community and is also a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador.

Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and loves learning and sharing new technologies.