Summary
Othmane Abou-amal is an engineering leader with ten years of experience, currently Director of Applied AI & AI Research at Datadog. He oversees multiple teams that have shipped LLM-backed products like Bits AI and platform-scale features such as Watchdog Alerts and Watchdog Insights that automate incident detection and root-cause analysis across Datadog’s monitoring suite. Rooted in hands-on data engineering (Spark, Scala, AWS, streaming ML), he progressed from building ETL and analytics pipelines to platformizing anomaly detection and augmented investigation capabilities. Trained at Ecole Centrale Paris and ESSEC, he combines rigorous technical depth with product and management acumen and a track record of scaling proofs-of-concept into multi-product, production-grade AI systems. Based in New York, he champions experimentation, research-driven decision making, and creative, collaborative engineering cultures.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Classe préparatoire économique et commerciale – Option scientifique., Classe préparatoire économique et commerciale – Option scientifique. at Intégrale
High School, High School at Lycée Louis Massignon - Casablanca
Deuxième année de classe préparatoire économique et commerciale – Option scientifique., Deuxième année de classe préparatoire économique et commerciale – Option scientifique. at Ipésup
Engineer's Degree, Engineer's Degree at Ecole Centrale Paris
MSc in Management, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Member of the Dean's list, MSc in Management, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Member of the Dean's list at ESSEC Business School
English, French, Arabic, Spanish