Romain Pons
Product Manager @ Datadog
Professional Status
Employed
Unavailable
About Me
I am currently building platform features that help Datadog enterprise customers get their tagging configuration right in order to benefit from governance capabilities.
Product Manager - Governance
Datadog
Since September 2024
- Tag Governance
Building a cross-product control plane for tags, defining an org‑scoped policy system and admin UI to make tags consistent across all telemetry through:
- Tag Visibility
Helping customer visualise their tagging coverage with policies to identify gaps and misconfigurations
- Tag Enrichment
Enabling editable tags in catalogs and over API-Keys with propagation to related telemetry. Driving ownership, accountability and improving data quality overall.
- Tag Enforcement
Enforce tagging policies to offer ingestion controls by dropping data at various stages.
- Tag Visibility
- Support Engineering Tools
- Building tools to improve customer success and support engineers daily workflows
- Centralizing customer information and account configuration
- Building tools to improve customer success and support engineers daily workflows
Product Manager - Data Platform
Datadog
June 2021
to September 2024
- Onboarding, Developer Experience & Self‑Service
- Onboarded over 40 new data types while protecting growth of pre‑existing streams such as Logs, APM, RUM
- Initiated Event Platform Console for product teams self-service operations
- Simplified product configuration rollout from seven services to one
- Intake migration:
Consolidated 80+ dedicated pools into shared capacity to cut toil and waste
- Onboarded over 40 new data types while protecting growth of pre‑existing streams such as Logs, APM, RUM
- Platform Capabilities
- Initiated an event forwarder service to enable cross-product telemetry leveraging
- Standardized events attachments lifecycle to enable large file ingestion at minimal costs
- “Worker Functions” runtime:
Moved from a general data processing service to a platform‑operated shared runtime + SDK so product teams own their custom data processing while benefiting from platform capabilities (isolation, pooled cells, unified deploys, reliability, cost-efficiency)
- Initiated an event forwarder service to enable cross-product telemetry leveraging
- Foundational platforms
- Promoted the Streaming Platform (unified client + control plane + admin UI) to standardize features such as backfills and slow‑lanes across Datadog
- Promoted the Context Platform (local RocksDB configs) to enable workloads to access always-available fresh configurations instead of relying on external fallible data sources.
- Promoted the Streaming Platform (unified client + control plane + admin UI) to standardize features such as backfills and slow‑lanes across Datadog
Product Manager
equensWorldline
May 2018
to May 2021
Lyon
France
- Building, Shipping and Delivering XS2A SaaS product:
Compliance with the PSD2 European banking regulation - Product Management:
- Monitoring the regulation and market standards evolutions, meetings with the various stakeholders.
- Owned Product roadmap, analysis, prioritizing, design, specification, delivery, communication, internal & external training
- Monitoring the regulation and market standards evolutions, meetings with the various stakeholders.
- Project Management:
Delivery team organization, planning, risks & costs management - Customer relationship:
Requirement analysis & definition, acceptance follow-up,
redaction of the compliance files submitted to European banking regulators. - Client portfolio composed of 13 European banks
Transformation & Integration Engineer @ SopraSteria
SNCF
December 2017
to April 2018
Lyon
France
- Implementation of an automated GUI testing framework
- Industrialization of SopraSteria service center applications
- Java JEE, Javascript, Angular, Protractor, Selenium, Git, GitLab, SVN, Jenkins
Product Engineer @ SopraSteria
Orange Business Services
April 2017
to December 2017
Paris
France
- Design and implementation of order taking and management applications for the VOIP and Voice Guidance park
- Set up and promotion of agile methods: Scrum Master / Coaching of a 10 people team
- Java JEE, Javascript, AngularJS, Activiti, BPMN, Spring, SonarQube, JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins
- SCRUM / KANBAN
- XP / TDD / BDD
Product Engineer @ SopraSteria
Orange
September 2014
to April 2017
Paris
France
- Design and implementation of the order taking and management application of the mobile and internet park
- Functional studies and impact analyses
- Agile ceremonies animation
- Onboarding & training of newcomers
- Java JEE, GWT, CQRS, Spring, SonarQube, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Jenkins, Git
- SCRUM / SCRUM OF SCRUM (6 squads)
- XP / DDD / TDD / BDD
Software Engineer @ SopraSteria
SFR
March 2012
to September 2014
Paris
France
- Design and implementation of mobile customer billing applications
- Application support & Production platforms maintenance
- Training of the new team in charge of the application
- Java JEE, Oracle 11g, Oracle BRM 7.3, Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, Selenium, SonarQube, Struts, Stripes, Apache Tomcat
Degree in partnership between the PHELMA / ENSIMAG schools of the Grenoble INP group and the Politecnico di Torino to study the different layers of communication systems.
Mathematics Specialty
Skills
Product Management
- SAAS B2B
- Enterprise Governance
- Data Platform
- Kanban, SCRUM
Dev & Tools
- V0, Cursor, Lovable
- Jira, Confluence
- Java / JS
- MongoDB / SQL
- Postman
Languages
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English
Expert
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Spanish
Intermediate
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Italian
Intermediate
