Christophe Poulain
Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Research
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristophe Poulain is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Research with over 12 years in software engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington. He brings deep backend expertise in building reliable, concurrent systems—evidenced by contributions to the prominent open-source CodaLab Competitions project focused on database locking and submission consistency. His career spans research-driven and product-focused roles at Microsoft Research, Teranode, NeuCo, and Aspen Technology, where he advanced from staff engineer to senior and principal positions. Christophe combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering, often tackling data integrity and API design in production systems. Known for quietly improving robustness in complex platforms, he prefers solving hard coordination and scaling problems behind the scenes. Based in Issaquah, WA, he blends research sensibilities with a steady record of delivering maintainable, server-side solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (7)
data-modeling10
api10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
django10
database-management9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codalab/codalab-competitions
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
CodaLab Competitions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:374 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Christophe appears to have been working on the back-end functionality of the CodaLab Competitions platform. Their commits involve modifications to the data model, specifically related to database locking and submission numbering, suggesting a focus on ensuring data integrity and handling concurrent operations. They also made changes to the views.py, and included changes to the API. This indicates the user had knowledge on various areas of the project and focused on server-side aspects of the project.
benchmarksartificial-intelligencesciencemachine-learning
MicrosoftTranslator/PythonConsole
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 29 days
apipythontranslationcommand-line-applicationtext-translation
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