Chris Poucet
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Poucet is a seasoned software engineer and leader with two decades of experience, including 17 years at Google where he led and shaped the Gerrit code review tooling and developer productivity efforts. He combines deep systems and frontend expertise—from site reliability and abuse-fighting pipelines to Maps features and GenAI integrations for code review—with hands-on contributions to the open-source Gerrit project, notably improving bulk actions and change management. Based in the UK, he has a PhD in electrical engineering and a track record of translating research-grade thinking into production systems. He also experiments entrepreneurially, founding simply-music.ai and coaching positive intelligence, showing a rare blend of technical depth, product curiosity, and people-focused leadership.
20 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KU LeuvenScuola EuropeaLa Jolla Country Day SchoolMasters in Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Masters in Sciences, Electrical Engineering at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
code-review10
rest-api9
git9
sql8
typescript7
typescript-types7
html7
typescripts7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GerritCodeReview/gerrit
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Gerrit Code Review - (mirror of https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:631 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focus on enhancing the bulk actions model within the Gerrit Code Review project. These changes included modifying the model to use change numbers instead of IDs, fetching detailed information about changes to compute bulk actions, and ensuring accurate state management, particularly regarding loading states and the removal of stale changes. The commits also included the addition of the functionality for applying change hashtags, and related styling changes.
reviewgerrit
poucet/advent
Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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