Antonin Amand
Lead Rust Software Engineer at Finary
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAntonin Amand is a Lead Rust Software Engineer based in Paris with 16 years of backend and systems experience across startups and scale-ups. He has led engineering efforts at Finary and previously spent six years building resilient backend services at Zenly, combining deep Python roots with a more recent focus on Rust. His open-source work improving geventhttpclient shows attention to performance, HTTP parsing reliability, and robust connection management—skills he brings to high-concurrency systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer (a “rubber duck” problem‑solver) who prefers shipping solid, maintainable code over clever shortcuts. He excels at refactoring brittle components and tightening error handling to improve system reliability in production.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at INSIA
Github Skills (9)
c1710
c1110
python10
parse10
gevent10
network-programming9
concurrency9
error-handling9
http-client9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
geventhttpclient/geventhttpclient
Oct 2011 - May 2020
A high performance, concurrent http client library for python with gevent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Antonin primarily worked on improving the `geventhttpclient` library, focusing on HTTP parsing and connection management. Their contributions include fixing reference handling and adding features like status code keep-alive to the parser. Further work involved refactoring the response class, enhancing error handling, and addressing issues related to closing connections and ensuring complete data consumption. These improvements likely increased the efficiency and reliability of the HTTP client.
http-headerpythonasyncioclient-libraryhttp-client
znly/gocql
Sep 2016 - Jun 2021
Package gocql implements a fast and robust Cassandra client for the Go programming language.
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 9 months
golangnosqlcassandraprogramming-languagegocql
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