Adrian Tombu
Freelance Principal Software Engineer at Self-employed
Montauban, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolAdrian Tombu is a freelance Principal Software Engineer and fractional CTO with 11 years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems, often on greenfield projects or modernizing legacy stacks. Based in Montauban, France, he blends hands-on Rust development and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL) with product-minded leadership from roles as CTO and lead engineer. He has built web and desktop apps—using axum, Lit webcomponents and Slint—and guided small teams through hiring, code review, and delivery for clients including TF1, Orange and Fnac. Adrian’s background ranges from front-end roots to systems engineering, and he frequently operates at the intersection of R&D and production engineering for SMEs. Notably, he runs a long-term freelance practice and shares his experience publicly at otso.fr, reflecting a pragmatic, independent approach to solving complex technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Developer, Computer Science, Front End Developer, Computer Science at Haute École Albert Jacquard (HEAJ)IT developer, Computer Science, IT developer, Computer Science at Haute École de Namur-Liège-Luxembourg Hénallux
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
npm-package10
firefox-addon10
sortable10
project-fluent10
rust-lang10
internationalization10
project-structure10
golang10
compiler10
rust10
layout10
browser-extension10
eloquent10
cross-platform10
twitter-api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
amazon-alternatives/extension
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Find stuff in Amazon and buy it elsewhere !
Contributions:1 release, 141 commits, 103 PRs in 5 years 1 month
opera-extensionamazonfirefox-extensionfirefox-addonaws
adriantombu/rust
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Contributions:29 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
rustrustlangreliableempoweringrust-language
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