Arnaud Burlet
Switzerland
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Top SchoolArnaud Burlet is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and scaling high-performance, distributed backend systems for traditional and crypto trading across CEX and DEX environments. Based in Switzerland, he built SwissBorg’s Order Management and accounting systems from the ground up, helping make the OMS a primary revenue engine and supporting the company’s path to unicorn status while maintaining exceptional reliability. He specializes in cloud-native Java/Scala infrastructures, Kubernetes, Aeron and low-latency patterns, and contributes to major open-source projects including Akka, cats-effect and Kafka—bringing production-hardened fixes to core distributed systems. Equally comfortable mapping business needs to technical trade-offs and mentoring cross-functional teams, he’s known for troubleshooting thorny edge cases and delivering measurable performance and profitability gains. An understated strength is his ability to operate across cultures and timezones, having driven collaborations across Europe, the USA and Taiwan.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
French, English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
distributed-systems10
akka10
actor-model10
concurrency10
scala10
testing8
java5
javas5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka-core
Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 21 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Arnaud contributed to the core Akka framework, focusing on improving the cluster client and handling various edge cases related to cluster node interactions and actor lifecycle management. Their work involved implementing client handover mechanisms, addressing issues with receptionist shutdown, and ensuring reliable communication within the cluster. The commits also included refactoring, addressing logging concerns and fixing specific issues to improve the robustness of the distributed system.
agilerun-appreactivedistributed-systemsconcurrency
fredfp/akka
Dec 2017 - Feb 2020
Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM
Contributions:12 pushes, 81 branches in 2 years 2 months
concurrentmessage-drivennon-blockingstream-processingconcurrency
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