Cédric Chantepie
Software Architect at Zengularity
France
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Top SchoolCédric Chantepie is a seasoned Software Architect based in France with over 14 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, APIs and data platforms across insurance, geo/spatial and big data domains. He blends deep Scala/Java backend expertise with DevOps and CI discipline—evidenced by CI work on ReactiveMongo and broad contributions to Play Framework, Play-JSON and the popular open-source chess server Lichess. As a technical leader and former CTO he designs event-sourced, high-throughput architectures (Kafka, Spark, Akka) while championing software quality through testing and release engineering. Comfortable across systems from low-level C/C++ integrations to cloud object stores and search engines, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong taste for functional programming. An active open-source contributor, he often focuses on robust JSON/BSON serialization, database drivers and testability improvements that quietly raise reliability across ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Software Engineering, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Master of Software Engineering, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at Université du Maine-Le Mans-Laval
French, Japanese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (43)
application-framework10
json10
spark10
back-end-development10
reactive10
enumeration10
macros10
app-framework10
sbt10
value-objects10
cicd10
mongodb-database10
java10
dataclasses10
scala10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ReactiveMongo/ReactiveMongo
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
:leaves: Non-blocking, Reactive MongoDB Driver for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 33 reviews, 464 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Cédric contributed to the backend logic and database operations, fixing test result order and introducing aggregation tests. They set up and configured the CircleCI environment, which indicates involvement in DevOps and CI/CD. The changes to the build scripts, MongoDB configuration, and database-related test code show experience in database administration.
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ReactiveMongo/Play-ReactiveMongo
May 2015 - Aug 2022
:leaves: ReactiveMongo plugin for Playframework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 193 commits, 548 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cédric focused on supporting Playframework 2.4 and later versions within the ReactiveMongo plugin. Their contributions involved modifying code related to JSON handling and BSON formatting to maintain compatibility with different Playframework versions. They also updated the project dependencies, including SBT and related plugins, and set up SBT release process and various CI settings.
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