Arnaud Blanc
Ingénieur Systèmes at CEGEDIM
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolArnaud Blanc is a seasoned systems engineer based in Paris with 26 years of experience managing Linux infrastructures, VMware virtualization, SAN storage and enterprise databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL). He currently works at Cegedim where he combines hands-on system administration with cloud SAN and backup technologies (TSM, Rubrik) while supporting complex vCenter/ESX environments. Beyond operations, Arnaud is an accomplished open-source contributor to prominent PHP projects—Symfony, PHPStan, ReactPHP and Twig—bringing low-level C and backend PHP expertise (including a production-ready php-rdkafka client). He excels at bridging infrastructure reliability with developer tooling, having contributed parser/type inference improvements and robust networked HTTP clients. Colleagues value his pragmatic troubleshooting across hardware, storage and software stacks and his knack for translating subtle protocol and type-system problems into reliable fixes.
26 years of coding experience
BAC STI Génie Electrotechnique, BAC STI Génie Electrotechnique at Lycée Jean Jaurès Chatenay Malabry
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Github Skills (110)
url-routing10
parser10
multidimensional-arrays10
testing10
http10
c1110
httpc10
phpunit10
security10
c1710
e-mail10
type-system10
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code-analysis10
symfony-ux10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
php-rdkafka/php-rdkafka
Mar 2015 - Jul 2022
Production-ready, stable Kafka client for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 7 reviews, 412 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily worked on implementing and extending the php-rdkafka extension for PHP, focusing on core features for interacting with Kafka. Contributions include the initial implementation of the `rdkafka` module, as well as adding support for the `topic conf` and `KafkaConsumer`. The user also added features related to the message and queue management. These changes involved modifying C code, creating class entries, and adding methods to interact with librdkafka.
kafkaphpkafka-clientphp-extension
schmittjoh/JMSTranslationBundle
Dec 2011 - Feb 2019
Puts the Symfony2 Translation Component on steroids
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily contributed to the JMS Translation Bundle by fixing issues and improving its functionality. They worked on setting the validator messages' domain, modifying Twig filters to handle edge cases, and fixing tests to ensure code quality. Additionally, they refactored the API controller and views to work around an issue in Symfony, and implemented a check for message consistency.
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