Bruno Cauet
Quantitative Technology Director
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolBruno Cauet is a quantitative technology leader with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale storage and metadata systems, currently directing Quantitative Technology at Qube Research & Technologies. Previously at Google and YouTube he led migrations to microservices, developed petabyte-scale storage used by 100+ teams, and authored C++ client libraries while co-owning Python readability and review processes. Hands-on across SRE and backend roles, he has driven performance tuning, production health, and major pipeline rewrites that dramatically reduced runtime and improved observability. An active open-source contributor, he improved Python 2/3 compatibility and ffmpeg-backed media conversions in notable projects like discogs_client and beets, reflecting a practical grasp of interoperability and multimedia tooling. Based in Paris, he combines rigorous engineering from CentraleSupélec and Université d'Orsay with a knack for translating complex distributed-system requirements into reliable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Degree in engineering Information systems, Degree in engineering Information systems at CentraleSupélecMP option info, MP option info at Lycée Saint LouisMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Université d'Orsay
English, French, vieux français (842-ca.1400), volapük, vieil occitan (jusqu’en 1500), klingon
Github Skills (14)
musicxml10
music-manager10
api10
media-library10
ffmpeg10
python10
apidoc10
oauth10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
git9
testing8
music7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:276 commits, 37 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily focused on improving the functionality of the beets music library manager by fixing bugs and enhancing the conversion process. They implemented changes to handle video streams in FLAC files during conversion, and later generalized the fix to all ffmpeg conversions. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to file deletion and made modifications to prevent zeroing out critical database fields within a plugin. The user demonstrated expertise in Python, and ffmpeg command-line tools, and also worked on code related to the user interface.
musicbrainzmusicpythonmusic-librarycli
discogs/discogs_client
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
DEPRECATED - Official Python Client for the Discogs API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily contributed to improving the codebase's Python 2 & 3 compatibility and adherence to the PEP8 style guide. They refactored code, updated imports, and implemented `range()`, `items()`, and the `except X as x` construct. Further improvements include handling of bytes and unicode, and fixing an issue with the OAuth1 implementation, along with several other minor fixes and improvements.
discogs-apipython
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