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Wouter de Bie

Wouter de Bie

Co‑founder & CTO at Confida. Ex‑Datadog, ex‑Spotify, ex‑NYT.

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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Joined October 2025
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Summary

Built and led large data & analytics organizations across product companies and media: Wouter moved from hands‑on data engineering at Spotify (2011–2018) into senior engineering leadership at The New York Times and Datadog, where he led Data & Analytics and designed multi‑cloud, self‑serve data platforms and hiring practices for data engineering teams. crunchconf+2
Technical founder building in Legal AI: he is a co‑founder and CTO of Confida, an early‑stage product focused on AI‑assisted contract review and negotiation workflows — indicating a transition from scaling data platforms to shipping an AI product for legal/commercial workflows. confida+2
Hands‑on engineer and open‑source maintainer: his public GitHub contains tooling and systems repositories (Rust, Python, macOS utilities, Home Assistant add‑ons) that demonstrate low‑level systems, automation, and tooling skills alongside leadership experience. github
Practical, data‑driven tinkerer with hardware and side projects: his Datadog blog post about adding telemetry to his sailboat shows a mix of hardware, systems integration, and data‑first thinking — reflecting a habit of applying engineering craft to personal projects. datadoghq

Work

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Writing

Data Journey with Wouter de Bie (Radio DaTa podcast)

July 1, 2022

Longform podcast interview covering career path (Netherlands → Spotify → NYT → Datadog → Confida), multi‑cloud data platform design, and areas to watch in the data landscape.

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The Old Datadog and the Sea

September 1, 2020

Personal post (authored on Datadog's engineering blog) combining a hobby (sailing) with engineering thinking; includes autobiographical details (mentions being Director at Datadog since May 2019) and demonstrates a hands‑on, systems mindset.

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Impactful Data Engineering — webinar (DataCamp)

Webinar on hiring, team building, and running data engineering organizations — captures approaches he advocated for while at Datadog (self‑serve platforms, hiring for software engineering aptitude over tool-specific skills).

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Hobbies

Sailing — maintains and instruments a sailboat; has written about integrating boat instruments and telemetry. datadoghq

Music / playlists — long history with music tech (worked at Spotify) and public references to music interest. youtube+1