Eugene Zhirov
Staff Software Engineer at Criteo
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolEugene Zhirov is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-performance HTTP and gRPC services, primarily in .NET/C#. At Criteo he progressed from Software Engineer to Staff, focusing on robustness and performance at scale, while earlier work at Kontur involved designing distributed tracing and log-search systems without centralized aggregation. He contributes to open-source tooling—improving stability and payload logic in the popular ghz gRPC benchmarking tool—and enjoys digging into runtime internals to squeeze latency and reliability wins. A seasoned mentor and speaker, Eugene has taught C# and given conference talks, combining practical production engineering with a talent for clear technical communication.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Ural State University named after A.M.Gorky
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (6)
go10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
testing10
fest7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bojand/ghz
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Simple gRPC benchmarking and load testing tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eugene primarily contributed to improving the stability and maintainability of the gRPC benchmarking tool, `ghz`. They fixed typos in comments and updated functional tests. The user also refactored the payload creation logic, added round-robin message selection, and fixed a bug.
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criteo-forks/ghz
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Simple gRPC benchmarking and load testing tool
Contributions:22 pushes, 4 branches, 3 tags in 2 months
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