Emmanuel Cron
Senior Software Engineer at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Cron is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building large-scale, user-focused systems across Google and YouTube, based in San Francisco. He specializes in payments, mobile and cross-platform integrations, and has led complex migrations (Python to C++ payment stack) that cut latency by 50% on iOS and consolidated Paid Digital Goods onto Google Play. A pragmatic engineer and product-minded operator, he builds the monitoring, logging, and documentation that make services reliable and maintainable long after launch. His background spans secure payments (card tokenization, PCI-compliant mobile auth, HCE) to high-traffic features like Super Chat and live-chat polling, and he often ships both backend pipelines and client experiences. Colleagues rely on him as a Swiss Army knife who quickly learns new domains and turns deep user empathy into measurable product improvements.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at EFREI - Grande école du numérique
French, English, German
Github Skills (39)
json10
pytorch10
electron10
world-of-warcraft10
microsoft10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
deserialization10
gson10
jackson10
vscode10
fastjson10
visual-studio-code9
json-parser9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Bhasmithal/Extended-PircBotX
Jul 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:128 commits in 1 year 9 months
AllInOneMighty/Elephant
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Elephant logs the chat for you in the background even when you get disconnected.
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 9 months
warcraft-addonworld-of-warcraftchatelephantdisconnected
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