Summary
Alban Linard is a seasoned software engineer and R&D practitioner with 18 years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems, formal verification tools, and efficient data structures. Fluent in C++, Python and Lua, he blends research-grade rigor—holding a Ph.D. in computer science—with pragmatic engineering practices like no-warnings builds, static analysis and CI. His career spans academia and industry, from co-creating the Model Checking Contest and formal-methods platforms to modernizing production stacks with asyncio, Docker and Cython. He frequently proposes and implements architectural evolutions, mentors engineers and students, and has a knack for compact, layered data representations that simplify complex models. Based in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, he thrives at the intersection of formal semantics and production-quality software.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D. in Computer Science Informatique, Ph. D. in Computer Science Informatique at Pierre and Marie Curie University