About

Maël Nison is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience. He is currently working at Datadog as a Senior Software Engineer, where he is part of the Frontend Platform team. The team is responsible for developing and maintaining the frontend infrastructure, which provides smooth workflows, making engineers more efficient. Maël specializes in developer experience, focusing on improving developer productivity while ensuring application stability. Prior to joining Datadog, Maël worked at Facebook, where he was a Software Engineer. He was a member of the JavaScript Foundation team, tasked with building and maintaining the tools and infrastructure supporting the work of all JavaScript engineers in the company. His OKRs were based on developer efficiency and satisfaction. Maël is also a Project Steward at Yarn, the JavaScript package manager, which is a large-scale open-source project with over 1 million users. He has been maintaining the project for a while now, which has exposed him to a wide area of experience. This includes coordinating with contacts from various companies such as Gatsby, Zeit, GitHub, Microsoft, Facebook, and more. He also gathers feedback from core users, helps them find solutions to their problems, ramps up and organizes a team of contributors, draws a long-term vision, and ensures they stay on track. Maël holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the European Institute of Technology and has also studied at Concordia University as an exchange student. He has completed a Google Academy program in Marketing at HEC. Maël's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Frontend, Infra, and JavaScript. He is an active contributor to the open-source movement and has a GitHub profile with more details.