Datadog Appoints Yanbing Li as Chief Product Officer
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Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) has appointed Yanbing Li as Chief Product Officer, effective immediately. Li brings over 25 years of product, technology, and engineering experience from leadership roles at Aurora, Google, and VMware. Her expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud and data infrastructure, enterprise software, and cloud operations is expected to help scale Datadog's product portfolio.
Li most recently served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Aurora, leading all software development efforts. She previously held executive positions at Google and VMware, focusing on cloud commerce platforms, operations infrastructure, and storage and availability business units. Li holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, a master's degree from Cornell University, and a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University.
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- Appointment of experienced technology leader as Chief Product Officer
- New CPO brings expertise in AI, ML, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software
- Potential for product portfolio expansion and improvement
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News Market Reaction
On the day this news was published, DDOG gained 0.48%, reflecting a mild positive market reaction.
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"Yanbing is a technology leader with established experience building market-leading products at hyper-growth companies," said Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog. "Her deep expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud and data infrastructure, enterprise software, and cloud operations will help scale the Datadog product portfolio to best meet the needs of our global customers."
"Datadog's track record as a leader in observability and security speaks for itself. It's an exciting time to join the company and work with its global customers and world-class product and engineering teams to set the stage for what's next in the industry," said Li. "I look forward to expanding on the depth and breadth of Datadog's offerings with input from real end users."
Most recently, Li was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Aurora, where she led all software development efforts. Prior to Aurora, as Vice President of Product and Engineering at Google, Li was responsible for the commerce platform for cloud, and the operations and service infrastructure powering both Google Cloud and Google. Prior to Google, she was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Storage and Availability Business Unit at VMware.
Li holds a Ph.D degree from
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About Datadog
Datadog is the observability and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, user experience monitoring, cloud security and many other capabilities to provide unified, real-time observability and security for our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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