Edouard Alligand
Founder And CEO at Quasar AI
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEdouard Alligand is a founder and CEO with 14 years of software engineering and entrepreneurial experience, currently leading Quasar AI from Dallas. Trained with a master's in mathematics and computer science, he blends rigorous technical foundations with product-led startup leadership, having previously founded Bureau 14 and held senior engineering roles in security and driver development. His hands-on background includes low-level systems and security work at Utimaco and the French Ministry of Defense, giving him deep expertise in robustness and trustworthy systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved documentation and hardened error handling in the widely used RocksDB key-value store, including fixes for 32-bit integer edge cases and clearer I/O error signaling. Known for turning meticulous engineering into practical products, he navigates both lead-technical and CEO responsibilities while keeping close to code and system design.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Mathematics computer science, Master Mathematics computer science at Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1
English, French, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
storage-engine10
c-language10
admin10
databases10
database-administration10
cprogramming-language10
database10
development-environment9
compiler-construction9
error-handling9
boost9
documentation8
delete-directory6
stl6
windows6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/rocksdb
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 28 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Edouard focused on improving the RocksDB library's documentation and fixing issues related to integer behavior on 32-bit platforms. They addressed a typo in the documentation and added a subcode to differentiate "out of space" errors from regular I/O errors. Furthermore, the user made changes to improve error handling and address potential integer overflows within the code, ensuring the library's stability and robustness.
persistent-storagebigtablefast-storagelsm-treedatabase
bureau14/qdb-httpd-docker
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
httpddocker
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