# Engineering VP spotlight: Ivo Dimitrov

DevFeed: [Engineering VP spotlight: Ivo Dimitrov](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/engineering-vp-spotlight-ivo-dimitrov-83450.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/engineering-vp-spotlight-ivo-dimitrov/>)

Author: Thomas Sobolik; Ivo Dimitrov

Published: 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog.md>)

Topics: [engineering-leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-leadership.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-engineering.md>), [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>)

Tags: [analytics-workloads](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics-workloads.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [company-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company-culture.md>), [core](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core.md>), [data-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-systems.md>), [employee-spotlight](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/employee-spotlight.md>), [platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platforms.md>), [vp-of-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vp-of-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

Ivo Dimitrov discusses his transition from software development to engineering management and his work leading Datadog's Distributed Data Systems organization. He describes the storage, metrics, events, query, and analytics platforms his teams build, as well as the leadership practices and technical challenges involved in scaling them.

## Source excerpt

In this interview, Ivo Dimitrov, Distributed Data Systems VP of Engineering, describes the engineering career that led him to Datadog and his committment to helping build out our core backend platforms.