Principal Engineer at Datadog, co-creator of Parquet, Arrow and OpenLineage
Julien Le Dem is a Principal Engineer at Datadog, serves as an officer of the ASF and is a member of the LFAI&Data Technical Advisory Council. He co-created the Parquet, Arrow and OpenLineage open source projects and is involved in several others. His career leadership began in Data Platforms at Yahoo! - where he received his Hadoop initiation - then continued at Twitter, Dremio and WeWork. He then co-founded Datakin (acquired by Astronomer) to solve Data Observability. His French accent makes his talks particularly attractive.

Sessions by Julien Le Dem
- Simplifying Data Lineage: How OpenLineage Empowers Airflow and Beyond (2025)
- Why Datadog Chose Airflow 3: Multi-Tenancy, Observability, and the Future of Event-Driven Workflows (2025)
- Nurturing an Open Source Community is Like Tending a Garden (2023)
- Data Lineage with Apache Airflow using OpenLineage (2021)