Eric Petit
Engagement Manager at Avanade
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Petit is an Engagement Manager with 20 years of experience in SaaS, managed services and cloud transformations, currently leading cloud infrastructure engagements at Avanade after similar roles at Capgemini and Prodware. He combines operational account leadership—SLAs, KPIs, crisis cells and contract negotiation—with deep product knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics ERP/CRM and hybrid cloud environments. A former marketing and consulting director, he pairs commercial acumen with hands-on technical oversight, having scaled SaaS/CRM offerings and driven international projects. Unusually for a manager at this level, he is also an active contributor to notable open-source projects such as Transmission and HandBrake, with low-level networking and performance-focused patches that reflect strong systems engineering skills. Based in Greater Paris, he blends strategic client stewardship with practical delivery experience across enterprise accounts like LVMH, Dior and Crédit Agricole. He is known for translating complex technical constraints into clear commercial outcomes and measurable service improvements.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
ISMA, Marketing et Management, ISMA, Marketing et Management at Audencia Business SchoolIngénieur, Electronique industrielle, Ingénieur, Electronique industrielle at Ecole spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
rate-limiting10
transcode10
video-encoding10
video-conversion10
package-management10
patch10
configuration-management10
torrent10
ffmpeg10
c1110
networking10
haiku10
c1710
transcoding10
fileio10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
transmission/transmission
Jun 2006 - Jan 2010
Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily worked on the core logic and internal workings of the Transmission BitTorrent client. Their contributions focused on low-level networking, peer communication, and file handling aspects of the application. The commits reveal modifications to the peer messaging protocol, the disk I/O system, and the handling of data, likely improving the efficiency and reliability of torrent downloads and seeding. The user's work includes enhancements to the code related to torrent metadata loading, and improvements to the rate control system.
bittorrent-clientbittorrenttransmissiontorrent
HandBrake/HandBrake
Jan 2006 - May 2006
HandBrake's main development repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the HandBrake project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to DVD processing and video transcoding. They modified code to address DVD seeking issues in non-linear titles, optimized the software by integrating SSE-optimized Xvid and x264 encoders, and updated FFmpeg with patches to enable MMX optimizations on MacIntels. They also made structural changes to facilitate compiling HandBrake without certain encoders and addressed issues with subtitle rendering and audio synchronization.
gplv2handbrakemulti-platformjavavideo-transcoding
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