Armel Bourgon
Senior Software Engineer II at Blizzard Entertainment
California, United States
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Top SchoolArmel Bourgon is a Senior Software Engineer II based in California with 14 years of professional experience and over seven years focused on backend enterprise-grade systems. He has delivered resilient, large-scale services across major gaming and entertainment companies including Blizzard Entertainment and Electronic Arts, most recently contributing to the backend of the EA Sports App. Armel’s career shows a steady progression from hands-on software engineering to lead and senior roles, with repeated responsibilities in backend architecture and team leadership at CityGrid Media and eLocal. He combines strong engineering fundamentals from a Master of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering with practical experience advising IoT startups like Airboxlab. Known for thriving in fast-paced product environments, he brings a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to complex distributed systems and game-facing services. Colleagues value his consistent delivery record and ability to translate product needs into maintainable backend platforms.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering at TELECOM Nancy
French, English
Github Skills (15)
fallback10
java9
timeout9
bulkhead9
jvm8
fault-tolerance8
rest7
circuit-breaker7
search-engine7
elasticsearch7
restful6
kafka-consumer3
continuous-integration1
continuous-testing1
testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
armelbd/Esial-Calendar
Sep 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 3 months
failsafe-lib/failsafe
Sep 2016 - May 2020
Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for the JVM
Contributions:8 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 8 months
fault-tolerancejvmjavaretryresilience
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