Antoine Pietri
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAntoine Pietri is a Swiss-based software engineer and CS PhD with 12 years of experience building robust backend systems and scale-out data tooling, currently working at Google. He blends deep systems expertise in Linux, C++ and Python with practical experience in PostgreSQL, graph compression and large-scale VCS data mining from his PhD at Inria/Software Heritage. His open-source contributions range from improving a pure-Python Git implementation (dulwich) to hardening package-build tooling (pikaur) and extending chat-protocol integrations in Bitlbee, reflecting a taste for low-level interoperability and reproducible builds. Antoine has a track record of shipping production services—search, async proxies, and deployment automation—and designing secure, isolated build/runtime environments using systemd. Organizing programming contests (Prologin) and working on a 220+ billion-edge software graph hint at both community leadership and comfort with extreme-scale data problems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur en Informatique, Informatique, Ingénieur en Informatique, Informatique at EPITADoctorat, Informatique, Doctorat, Informatique at Université de Paris
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
git10
python10
testing10
instant-messaging10
c1110
c1710
archlinux10
version-control10
systemd10
dulwich10
scripting9
irc9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jelmer/dulwich
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Pure-Python Git implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Antoine focused on enhancing the `dulwich` library's `fastexport` module, which appears to handle Git import processes. Their contributions involved handling various aspects of the Git import, including commit markers, repositories with multiple roots, and merge markers. They also added tests to ensure the correct handling of commit and merge markers within the `fastexport` module, increasing the robustness of the library. Finally, they fixed some style issues.
pythonversion-controlmercuriallibgit2git-addons
actionless/pikaur
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily focused on improving the integration of `pikaur` with systemd and enhancing its ability to run as root in a secure manner. The contributions include implementing dynamic user support via `systemd-run`, managing cache directories, and correctly isolating the build environment. They also introduced configuration options, resolved missing directory issues, and improved the build process to work correctly with the new user isolation.
aur-helperdependenciesinteractionpkgbuildlinux
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