Dorian Kurzaj
Senior Software Engineer at Algolia
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolDorian Kurzaj is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, search and data platforms. Currently at Algolia, he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer and brings deep practical experience in crawler design, indexing benchmarking, and large-scale data ingestion. His background spans C++, Go, Java and Python across projects involving Kafka, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, Ignite, Elasticsearch and Vespa, plus CI/CD and Kubernetes automation. He has a history of blending R&D and production work—from developing a distributed web crawler at Qwant to building big data study and development solutions for public-sector contracts. Trained at INSA Toulouse, he pairs solid academic fundamentals with hands-on systems engineering and a preference for remote-first collaboration. An understated strength is his cross-stack fluency that lets him move between low-level performance tuning and high-level architecture decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Georges Pompidou High SchoolDUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at IUT MONTPELLIER-SETEEngineer Computer Science and Network, Engineer Computer Science and Network at INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
French, English, German, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (161)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
QwantResearch/urlfactory
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
A complete C/C++ framework to handle URLs and Robots.txt
Contributions:1 release, 23 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 1 month
urlstxtcppurl-parserrobots-txt
vespa-engine/vespa_exporter
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Vespa metrics exporter for Prometheus
Contributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
exportervespaprometheus-exportermetrics-exportergrafana
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