Damien Krotkine
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Alan
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Krotkine is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Paris with 18 years of experience building and leading large-scale, high-throughput platforms across observability, runtime configuration, and real-time event systems. He has driven distributed tracing and metrics/streaming architectures at Booking.com (handling millions of events and hundreds of millions of metrics per second) and now applies that systems-level rigor to healthcare infrastructure at Alan. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Perl and Erlang to Go, Java, Kafka and Kubernetes—he combines hands-on refactoring chops (notably contributions to the Dancer/Dancer2 Perl web frameworks) with team leadership and product-minded ownership. Damien favors complex, platform-level challenges and is known for pragmatic, safety-minded code improvements and improving extensibility in long-lived systems.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer science, Master’s Degree, Computer science at Ecole internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l'InformationMathematiques & Physics, Mathematiques & Physics at lycée Claude Bernardbaccalauréat, S, baccalauréat, S at Lycée Français de Francfort - Frankfurt am Main
French, German, English
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
web-framework10
error-handling10
refactoring10
perl10
refactor10
api8
api-design8
apidoc8
software-design7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PerlDancer/Dancer
Sep 2010 - Dec 2015
The easiest way to write web applications with Perl (Perl web micro-framework)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:258 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Dancer web framework. They replaced `eval "stuff"` with `eval {}` where possible, enhancing code safety. The user also replaced `die` and `warn` with `croak`, `carp`, and `confess` from the `Carp` module. Several commits involved fixing errors and issues within the framework.
micro-frameworkweb-applicationsdatabase-accesswebapplicationframework
PerlDancer/Dancer2
Mar 2012 - Mar 2016
Perl Dancer Next Generation (rewrite of Perl Dancer)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
Contributions summary:Damien's commits primarily focus on enhancing the plugin architecture of the Perl Dancer2 web framework. Their work involved implementing plugin compatibility features, modifying versioning variables, and fixing issues within the plugin system. They also added documentation and addressed specific compilation issues related to the Ajax plugin, indicating a strong focus on improving the framework's extensibility and functionality. Additionally, they contributed to minor documentation improvements and the correction of code.
dancernext-generationrewriteperl
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