Boris Chazalet
Staff Software Engineer at Company Watch
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Chazalet is a data engineer and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and scalable backend systems from Lyon, France. He has led major rewrites of data foundations—designing data lakes, warehouses and Airflow orchestration on GCP—while maintaining a dual role in Scala backend engineering and infrastructure-as-code. His work spans the full stack, from TypeScript frontends to Akka/Scala services, Solr search, and Dataflow/BigQuery pipelines, and includes migrating on-prem systems to cloud-native architectures. An active contributor to Apache Libcloud, he strengthened GCE driver support and test coverage, showing a pragmatic focus on cross-cloud interoperability and reliability. Known for bringing engineering best practices (CI, tests, PR reviews) and experimenting with new technologies (Spark, Kafka, Akka-streams), he combines hands-on delivery with thoughtful system design. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical leadership and steady execution on complex, long-running modernization efforts.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master exchange program, Network and Computer Security, Wireless Communications, VoIP, Master exchange program, Network and Computer Security, Wireless Communications, VoIP at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster, Telecommunications, Engineering, Master, Telecommunications, Engineering at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
French, Spanish, English, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (11)
libcloud10
google-cloud-platform10
google-compute-engine10
google-cloud10
python10
test-automation10
gcp10
apidoc9
api9
network-configuration8
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy-to-use API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Boris primarily focused on enhancing the Google Cloud Engine (GCE) driver within the Apache Libcloud library. They implemented new features for handling shared networks and subnetworks by allowing the use of fully qualified resource URLs. Furthermore, they added comprehensive tests to ensure the correct functionality of the new features and address related issues, and added additional tests to catch regressions. The user also fixed linting issues and updated the documentation for the relevant functions.
libcloudpythoncloudapache
bchazalet/sbt-git
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 33 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years
scalagit-pluginsbt
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