Bertrand Darbon
Senior Rust Engineering at Hyli
Lorient, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolBertrand Darbon is a senior backend engineer with 11 years of experience, specialized in Rust and high-performance, reliability-critical systems—particularly blockchain protocols and consensus engines. He has led production-grade Rust development for the Hyli Autobahn consensus, shipped SDKs and dev tools, and dramatically sped CI for large open-source codebases. Previously he rescued and modernized an unmaintained C++ library at Ledger, fixing critical bugs used by high-value Bitcoin custody flows and improving CI/CD for faster, safer releases. Comfortable across low-level systems, multithreading, and zero-knowledge stacks, he blends hands-on implementation with product ownership and developer experience improvements. Based in Lorient, France, he’s available for freelance engagements and known for thriving in high-pressure situations where performance and correctness are non-negotiable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ingénierie informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ingénierie informatique at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleDUT, Information Technology, DUT, Information Technology at Université Pierre Mendès-France (Grenoble II)CPGE - Physique technique sciences de l'ingénieur, Physique Technologique, CPGE - Physique technique sciences de l'ingénieur, Physique Technologique at Ferdinand Buisson VoironBaccalauréat (French High School Diploma), Science option - Maths specialisation, Baccalauréat (French High School Diploma), Science option - Maths specialisation at ITEC BoisfleuryMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Bonn
French, English, German
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Github Skills (120)
tcp-server10
web-application10
windows10
http10
asio10
cpp10
unix10
io-uring10
linux10
application-framework10
cpp-library10
http-server10
contenteditable10
beast10
server10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Hyle-org/hyleoof
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Small demo app for the hyle AMM, using yew
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 11 PRs in 4 months
BertrandD/drogon
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows
Contributions:2 PRs, 165 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
unixweb-applicationc-plus-plushttp-serverweb-application-framework
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