Abel L
Senior Rust Developer at Photoroom
Provence, Vaud, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel L is a Senior Rust Developer with 9 years of experience building performant backend systems and embedded Bluetooth stacks, currently based in Provence, Vaud, France. He has shipped production Rust and C++ code at companies from startups to Google, contributing to Android Bluetooth infrastructure, virtual controller tooling, and end-to-end test frameworks. At Windmill he strengthened a high-performance open-source workflow platform, optimizing APIs, refactoring core logic, and adding benchmarking and job garbage collection. His background in embedded Bluetooth (Tempow) gives him deep systems-level expertise in portability, secure micro-kernels, and low-level debugging that informs his backend architecture decisions. Known for practical engineering trade-offs, he blends hands-on implementation with shaping CI-driven test tooling and schema-level improvements. He is an active open-source contributor who brings a systems thinker’s attention to performance and reliability in distributed environments.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
+2 Computer Science, +2 Computer Science at Université Côte d'AzurInformatics, Informatics at 42 Paris+2 Mechanical Engineering, +2 Mechanical Engineering at IUT d'Aix Marseille
Github Skills (15)
rust10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
cross-platform9
apidoc9
nix9
platform-agnostic9
api9
low-code9
open-source9
database-design8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
python6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
windmill-labs/windmill
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 77 PRs, 358 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Abel primarily contributed to the back-end of the project, focusing on the development and maintenance of the application's core functionality. Their work includes implementing and integrating features related to flow scripts, improving API performance, and refactoring raw value fetching logic. They also made updates to the database schema, including adding grants to the job table and implementing garbage collection to manage job records. Additionally, the user contributed to the project's Nix configuration and added several features for benchmarking.
scalablepythonworkflow-engineserverlesslow-code
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