Bilal Amarni is a Software Development Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, distributed tooling, and DevOps automation. He currently helps bring Alexa to over 100 million customers at Amazon and has deep hands-on experience with Go and Python microservices, CLI tooling, and cloud drivers from his time at Mesosphere and on Docker projects. A prolific open-source contributor, Bilal has improved core developer tooling and frameworks—including Composer, Symfony components, Doctrine bundles—and built a 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS with automatic updates and desktop support. He blends systems-level thinking (kernel/rootfs builds, SSH/key management) with pragmatic backend work (forms, caching, CSRF handling), showing both ops and application expertise. Bilal also has experience optimizing services for scale (pprof load testing) and migrating projects across languages and architectures, demonstrating a knack for incremental modernization. Colleagues would describe him as a practical engineer who prefers shipping robust, well-documented solutions that endure in production.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DAEU A, French Literature, History, English, DAEU A, French Literature, History, English at Université Paris Descartes
Software Developer, Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server, Software Developer, Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server at AFPA
Extra Form : Captcha GD, Tinymce, Recaptcha, JQueryDate, JQueryAutocomplete, JQuerySlider, JQueryFile, JQueryImage
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:259 commits, 19 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bilal primarily contributed to the `genemu/genemuformbundle` repository, which provides extra form components. Their work focused on enhancing the Captcha functionality by adding the ability to hardcode the captcha value. They updated session namespaces and integrated updates to the form view interface. These changes suggest a focus on improving existing form components and aligning the bundle with Symfony updates.
Contributions:7 releases, 84 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bilal primarily focused on building and configuring a 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 3. Their contributions involved creating a build script for kernel and root filesystem, along with configuring the boot process. They updated the build process to Debian Stretch and later to include the ability to build a desktop version. Moreover, the user implemented features for automatic updates and system configuration.
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