Arnaud Lacurie
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolArnaud Lacurie is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in London with six years of professional experience focused on databases and high-performance back-end systems. He leads FoundationDB work at Apple, bringing deep expertise in algorithmic problems, data structures and complex technical challenges honed through roles at Splice Machine and SAP. His hands-on contributions to the FoundationDB record layer—improving Lucene integration with features like spellchecking, synonym search and performance metrics—showcase a blend of production-grade engineering and careful attention to search semantics. Arnaud’s career traces low-level systems work (RTOS drivers on manycore chips) through database engine development, giving him rare end-to-end insight from hardware-adjacent code to distributed storage layers. He combines technical leadership with a practitioner’s mentality, shipping measurable improvements while mentoring teams to tackle tricky algorithmic and performance problems. Fluent in multidisciplinary environments thanks to international study in Japan and Grenoble, he brings both technical depth and cultural adaptability to global engineering organizations.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Diploma / Master's degree Software Engineering, Engineering Diploma / Master's degree Software Engineering at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleKyoto University International Education Program Japanese Studies, Kyoto University International Education Program Japanese Studies at Kyoto UniversityMP*, MP* at CPGE Fabert
French, English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (7)
foundationdb10
lucene10
javas10
spellchecking10
java10
testing9
relational-databases9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
A relational database with SQL support built on FoundationDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 137 reviews, 22 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily contributed to the `fdb-record-layer-lucene` module, focusing on enhancing the Lucene integration within the FoundationDB record layer. Their work involved implementing and testing new features such as spellchecking and synonym search functionality. The commits demonstrate the ability to handle different search scenarios, including multiple matches and complex document structures, and integrate metrics for performance monitoring. Further enhancements involved handling scores and frequencies correctly within the spellcheck cursor.
foundationdbrelational-databasessqlrelational-database
arnaud-lacurie/fdb-record-layer
Jan 2022 - Jun 2026
A record-oriented store built on FoundationDB
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 215 pushes in 4 years 5 months
foundationdb
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