Damien Gerard
Software Engineer at Net Insight
Tokyo, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Gerard is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience building high-performance C++ systems and cloud platforms, now based in Tokyo and currently at Net Insight. He spent seven years at Rakuten working on OneCloud Compute and an award-winning multilingual neural machine translation service, blending production-grade infrastructure with machine learning. Damien’s background spans numerical simulation for power systems, low-latency financial and server tooling, and multithreaded C++ across Linux, macOS, and Windows. He is an active open-source contributor who has improved stability and fixed memory leaks in the widely used Notepad++ codebase, demonstrating attention to reliability and security. Known for tackling tricky bugs and porting cross-platform code, he combines deep systems-level expertise with practical cloud and AI platform experience. His profile and portfolio are available at https://damien.iwi.me, reflecting a pragmatic engineer who prefers concrete fixes over theoretical designs.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree IA, Engineer's Degree IA at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
memory-management10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
editor9
editors9
windows8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Notepad++ official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 82 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on bug fixes within the `notepad-plus-plus` repository. Their contributions addressed issues related to uninitialized variables and invalid reads, specifically within the `ScitillaComponent/Buffer.cpp` and `PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/Buffer.cpp` files. Furthermore, the user identified and fixed memory leaks, and addressed several code style and compilation issues. The fixes appear to improve the stability and reliability of the Notepad++ editor.
notepad-officialcppwindowsnotepadeditor
nany-lang/nany
Dec 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:1958 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
compilerprogramming-language
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