Christophe Bornet
Senior Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolChristophe Bornet is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years building distributed systems, cloud databases and messaging platforms, now working at IBM on Watsonx.ai and Astra DB after DataStax acquisition. A long-time core contributor and co-founder in prominent open-source projects—JHipster and OpenAPI Generator—he routinely bridges API-first generation, reactive Spring stacks, and messaging integrations (notably Apache Pulsar). His hands-on contributions span enhancing Swagger/OpenAPI tooling, Pulsar WebSocket features, and integrating Pulsar into JHipster Lite, reflecting a talent for making complex backend pieces work smoothly together. Former R&D and technical lead across telecom, energy and e-commerce, he combines product-minded architecture with deep engineering: microservices, reactive streams, Cassandra and Kubernetes/Openshift deployments. Based in Bordeaux, he’s also an Apache Pulsar committer and LangChain/Langflow contributor, comfortable moving between company-scale production systems and widely used open-source developer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bac+5 Electronics & Computer science, Bac+5 Electronics & Computer science at CentraleSupélecBac, Bac at Lycée Blaise Pascal
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (75)
messaging10
python10
testing10
swagger10
websocket10
javas10
code-generation10
websockets-client10
rest-api10
test-container10
backend10
reactor10
openapi10
client-websocket10
develop10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jhipster/generator-jhipster
Jul 2015 - Jul 2020
JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 369 commits, 285 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily contributed to the JHipster generator, focusing on enhancing reactive application support. Their work involved modifying prompts and templates for server-side and client-side code generation, particularly for integrating API-first development with OpenAPI-generator. The contributions also included fixing lint issues, test failures, and aligning the generated code with Spring Security default authentication parameter names and using new spring boot features. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to deployments, like the setup of security configurations and improvements for a cloud-based, especially in kubernetes and openshift environments.
development-platformyeoman-generatorgeneratormicroservicedocker
langflow-ai/langflow
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Langflow is a low-code app builder for RAG and multi-agent AI applications. It’s Python-based and agnostic to any model, API, or database.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:275 reviews, 236 PRs, 75 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Christophe contributed to the development of Langflow by adding new components related to vector stores and link extraction, specifically focusing on Cassandra Graph and HtmlLinkExtractor. They also addressed testing and code quality issues within the existing codebase. These contributions involved modifying the codebase, updating dependencies, and improving the overall functionality of the project.
chatgptgenerative-ailarge-language-modelsreact-flow
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