Christopher Faulet
Senior Software Engineer C at HAProxy Technologies
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Faulet is a senior software engineer with 16 years' experience specializing in high-performance C and Erlang systems, currently driving core development at HAProxy Technologies and contributing as an official committer to the Erlang Yaws webserver. He blends deep systems-level expertise—connection management, HTTP parsing, proxies and concurrent distributed architectures—with practical tooling like CI, profiling and test suites to deliver robust network services. His open-source work includes impactful fixes and feature enhancements to widely used projects such as HAProxy, Nuster and Yaws, reflecting a knack for subtle protocol and buffer-handling issues. Comfortable across C/C++, Erlang/OTP and a range of databases and messaging stacks (RabbitMQ, Cassandra, Redis), he prefers building backend and network applications and improving maintainability through documentation and tests. Based in Paris, he is equally productive remotely and has a history of shipping production-grade security and filtering features for large platforms.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Classes préparatoires in Mathematics and Physics (MPSI, PCSI, PC), Classes préparatoires in Mathematics and Physics (MPSI, PCSI, PC) at Jaques Amyot (High School)5-year degree, Software engineering and project management, 5-year degree, Software engineering and project management at EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
French, English
Github Skills (26)
caching10
reverse-proxy10
erlang10
http10
load-balancing10
c-programming10
networking10
multiplexing10
webserver10
haproxy10
cprogramming-language10
debug9
c119
proxy9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erlyaws/yaws
Feb 2012 - Dec 2017
Yaws webserver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 8 PRs, 57 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the Yaws webserver, specifically addressing issues related to connection management in the reverse proxy and parsing and formatting of cookies. These changes included improvements to cached connections, and fixes and enhancements to cookie parsing/formatting functions, as well as the addition of functions to handle cookie headers, along with documentation and test suite updates. The contributions also extended to adding support for configurable source directories and socket options.
golanggleamerlangbeamwebserver
haproxy/haproxy
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 2884 comments, 939 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the Haproxy load balancer's code, addressing issues related to message handling and the utilization of SE descriptors. Their work involved refactoring parts of the codebase, particularly in the areas of HTTP parsing, connection management, and the handling of various frame types within the multiplexer, like H1 and FCGI. The user made significant contributions towards optimizing the connection management and handling of internal processes. Their work focused on improving the robustness and the efficiency of the code.
proxycachingddos-mitigationhttp2ipv6
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