Fabrice De Gans
Staff Software Engineer at The Browser Company
France
Summary
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Top SchoolFabrice De Gans is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building systems-level software, currently shaping the browser and productivity tooling at The Browser Company. He previously spent nearly a decade at Google, where he ported Chromium and key Cast libraries to Fuchsia and helped launch Fuchsia on Nest Hub devices. Skilled across back-end engineering, test automation and build tooling, he has deep experience with platform ports, compilers, and Gradle/Android Studio integrations. An active open-source contributor, he added Fuchsia-specific death-test support to GoogleTest and improved usability in the long-running VisualBoyAdvance-M emulator by adding configurable command-line options. Based in France, he combines product-focused engineering with a knack for low-level systems work, from kernel page-caches to cross-platform process handling. Colleagues know him for reliably shipping complex platform integrations that later get backported to legacy systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiqueMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French
Github Skills (13)
wxwidgets10
googletest10
c-language10
fuchsia10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
configuration-file9
process-management9
rc9
command-line-interface9
rcon9
build-automation8
windows-gui8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 32 commits, 195 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fabrice primarily focused on adding and modifying command-line options related to the configuration file for the VBA-M emulator. They introduced a command-line option to specify a custom configuration file, enabling users to customize the emulator's behavior. These changes involved modifying the source code to incorporate the new option and integrate the custom configuration file loading. The user contributed to enhance the emulator's usability and flexibility by allowing users to specify a configuration file from the command line.
gameboygame-boyemulatorarcadegameboy-advance-emulator
google/googletest
May 2018 - Jun 2018
GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Fabrice primarily focused on adding Fuchsia support to the GoogleTest framework, specifically in the area of death tests. This involved implementing Fuchsia-specific logic, including system calls, process handling, and pipe communication. They also made corrections and adjustments to existing code related to death tests and dependencies, resolving several issues to ensure correct behavior.
googletestinggoogletestmockingmock
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