Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced that Yanbing Li is joining as Chief Product Officer, effective immediately. Li has more than 25 years of product, technology and engineering experience, having led global engineering, operations and infrastructure teams at Aurora, Google and VMware.

"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 Princeton University, a master's degree from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University.

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