Antoine Catton
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAntoine Catton is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Munich with 14 years of experience building reliable, secure systems and migrating monolithic Python backends to cloud-native Go microservices. Currently at Google, he combines deep SRE practice with a passion for functional and systems programming—actively preferring Rust, Go and OCaml for new work—and a long history of contributing backend fixes and refactors to notable Django projects like Mezzanine and django-filer. He has led engineering and data teams, designed architectures end-to-end, and embedded in squads to ship scalable data and ML-enabled services. Known for a security-minded approach (langsec and systems security) and OSS-first ethos, he also maintains strong cryptographic hygiene (PGP fingerprint public in his GitHub bio).
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
European Engineering degree (eq. Msc), Computer Software Engineering, 3.1/4, European Engineering degree (eq. Msc), Computer Software Engineering, 3.1/4 at Université de Technologie de TroyesDUT (Two years technical degree), Computer Software Engineering, 3.0/4, DUT (Two years technical degree), Computer Software Engineering, 3.0/4 at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
English, French, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
cms10
file-management10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
modeler10
modello10
refactoring10
modeling10
database-migrations9
database-migration9
addon8
javascript8
django-cms7
flask6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
django-cms/django-filer
May 2013 - Jan 2016
File and Image Management Application for django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring efforts within the django-filer project. Their work involved addressing error handling in the image and file management modules, fixing version comparison issues related to Django compatibility, and updating code to leverage newer Django admin features. The user also refactored the codebase to improve maintainability and remove dependencies on default file storage.
cmspythondjangoaddondjango-cms
stephenmcd/mezzanine
Jul 2013 - Jul 2015
CMS framework for Django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Antoine contributed to the Mezzanine CMS framework for Django, focusing on core backend logic. Their work included removing fields related to the Django built-in user model to ensure compatibility with custom user models, and fixing circular import problems to maintain Django 1.6 compatibility. The user also added functionality to use proxy models within the "Add..." drop-down and improved code readability through list comprehensions. Additionally, the user reverted changes and fixed issues related to Django's generic relations.
cmscms-frameworkpythondjangoframework
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