Alexis Le Quoc

CTO & Co-Founder

Alexis Lê-Quôc is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Datadog, the world’s leading cloud monitoring and analytics platform. He co-founded the company in 2010 in New York alongside his partner Olivier Pomel. Today, Datadog is listed on the Nasdaq with a market capitalization exceeding $40 billion and annual revenues surpassing $3.4 billion. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from École Centrale Paris. He began his career as an engineer at IBM Research, then worked at Neomeo and Orange. He met his partner Olivier during their university studies in France, and they worked together at several companies before founding Datadog. He served as Director of Operations at Wireless Generation, where he built a team and infrastructure that served over four million students across 49 U.S. states. He led the development of the technical platform that transformed Datadog from a startup into one of the world’s most important cloud software companies. He contributed to building integrated monitoring solutions that combine infrastructure, applications, logs, and cybersecurity into a single platform, serving thousands of organizations worldwide. He is considered one of the leading figures in the global DevOps movement, distinguished by his focus on technical elegance and operational efficiency. He regularly speaks at major global conferences such as AWS re:Invent, Monitorama, Velocity, and PyCon, and is regarded as an authority in cloud monitoring and server performance. At LEAP 2026, he will share his expertise in building scalable digital infrastructure—a pivotal topic for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia amid its rapid digital transformation and growing reliance on cloud computing under Vision 2030.