Antoine Girbal
Tech Lead For Cloud Infra Edge - Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAntoine Girbal is a tech lead and staff software engineer with over 20 years building high-performance, large-scale distributed systems across CDN, database, and e-commerce domains. He blends hands-on engineering with data-driven leadership, having driven multi-team initiatives from ideation to production—most recently regionalization and ML-driven ranking within Amazon’s Delivery Experience. Previously he led Netflix Open Connect projects that replaced cloud load balancers with CDN edge infrastructure, saving $10M annually while improving reliability, and helped design an edge proxy that accelerated API latency. Antoine has deep systems and storage expertise dating back to pre-cloud CDNs that still run on 10,000 servers across 120 PoPs, plus notable contributions to the MongoDB Java driver addressing memory and GridFS issues. Based in Los Gatos, he pairs a pragmatic, metric-first approach with a habit of diving into messy data and code to uncover surprising optimizations. He holds advanced technical degrees and two patents in the CDN space, reflecting both practical impact and inventive engineering.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiqueMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Stevens Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Physics at Stanislas
English, French, German
Github Skills (9)
javas10
mongodb10
back-end-development10
bson10
java10
mongodb-database10
database9
java-libraries9
databases9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-java-driver
Nov 2010 - Dec 2011
The official MongoDB drivers for Java, Kotlin, and Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:146 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Antoine's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Java MongoDB driver's functionality and resolving issues. They addressed a memory leak by promptly calling killcursors in the finalize method and prevented errors related to cursor IDs. The contributions included fixes for several bugs within the BSONDecoder and added features for the GridFS module, such as the ability to set chunk size before obtaining an OutputStream. The user also improved the design of write concerns, improving performance and handling of errors.
nosqljava-libraryjvmkotlinjava
agirbal/umongo
Jun 2011 - Jun 2014
Contributions:173 commits, 2 comments in 3 years 1 month
electronmongodb-clusternodejsdesktopbrowse
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