Amaury Sechet
Benevolent Dictator
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAmaury Sechet is a seasoned back-end engineer and open-source maintainer with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Benevolent Dictator at Bitcoin ABC in Paris. He brings deep systems and protocol expertise from work at Facebook (including contributions to QUIC via mvfst) and long-standing involvement in Bitcoin-related clients and consensus work, including hard-fork safety, replay protection, and mempool refactors. Comfortable across languages and runtimes, he has improved compilers, standard libraries and allocators (D, LDC, jemalloc) and delivered pragmatic low-level fixes for signal handling, memory errors and crypto validation. Amaury combines architecture-level refactors with practical shipping experience—introducing abstractions like Aead/CryptoFactory in mvfst and implementing anti-replay and opcode support in Bitcoin forks—making him a rare engineer who bridges protocol design, compiler/runtime internals, and production-critical distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
EseoEngineer's degree, Engineer's degree at Ecole supérieure d'Electronique de l'Ouest-ESEO ANGERS
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Github Skills (74)
website-development10
signature-verification10
bitcoins10
c1110
refactor10
c1710
cryptocurrency10
crypt10
dt10
refactoring10
opcodes10
crypto10
ux-design10
javascript10
protocol-buffers10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pixel-saver/pixel-saver
Sep 2013 - Apr 2017
Pixel Saver is designed to save pixel by fusing activity bar and title bar in a natural way.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 39 PRs, 68 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Amaury primarily contributed to the Gnome Shell extension `pixel-saver`, focusing on UI/UX improvements within the application menu. They implemented tooltip functionality, including delayed appearance and hiding behavior when the menu is open. Further enhancements involved fixing code indentation and refactoring aspects of the button code, ensuring the application's user interface is responsive and aligned with Gnome Shell standards.
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Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc
Nov 2017 - May 2022
Bitcoin ABC develops node software and infrastructure for the eCash project. This a mirror of the official Bitcoin-ABC repository. Please see README.md
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1061 commits, 24 PRs, 1838 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Amaury focused on low-level optimizations and refactoring of core Bitcoin Cash Node code. Key commits involved refactoring of the mempool code, including transaction processing and ancestor handling. They also implemented a feature for miners to send a portion of the block reward to a specified address and updated the code to work with the most recent Bitcoin Cash Node upgrades.
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