Arnaud Kapp
Software Engineer at ISLOG
Greater Strasbourg Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolArnaud Kapp is a software engineer with 13 years of experience based in the Greater Strasbourg area, specializing in C++ back-end development and embedded/RFID systems. He has contributed to prominent open-source projects in the ZeroMQ ecosystem, adding reactor/poller enhancements and threading/actor abstractions to improve message handling and event-driven design. At ISLOG he deepened his systems expertise by building a foundational C++ RFID library, integrating hardware security modules and PKCS#11, and delivering cross-language solutions including Android apps and Meteor JS tools. Comfortable across low-level performance work and full-stack glue code, he also has hands-on Linux administration and distributed crawling experience from earlier roles. Colleagues describe him as security-conscious and pragmatic, with a knack for turning protocol-level improvements into robust, production-ready components.
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
zeromq10
multithreading10
mq10
networking10
actor10
cprogramming-language10
reactor10
messaging9
append9
concurrency9
testing7
vector6
constants6
pointer6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zeromq/zmqpp
May 2014 - Oct 2016
0mq 'highlevel' C++ bindings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 66 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud focused on enhancing the `zmqpp` library's functionality, particularly its `poller` and `reactor` classes. They added features to directly integrate `zmq_pollitem_t` structures, expanding the polling capabilities. Further contributions involved introducing a `reactor` class to manage socket events and associated handlers, as well as creating an `actor` class for thread management and inter-thread communication. They also made improvements to the message handling capabilities.
cppc-bindingsc-plus-plus0mqheader-only
zeromq/libzmq
Aug 2014 - Mar 2017
ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 18 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily contributed to the core C++ engine of ZeroMQ. They focused on code improvements such as adding const qualifiers and fixing initialization order. The user also added support for a new poll flag and introduced a failing test case related to `zmq_setsockpt()`. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue by attaching the metadata to the "identity message".
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