Federico Giraud
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at LiveKit
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFederico Giraud is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, SRE practices, and cloud infrastructure across startups and hyperscale environments. He led Yelp’s unified streaming ingestion and Kafka deployment work and later drove reliability and architectural changes for multi-billion QPS services at Google, including serving as SRE lead for Slicer. Skilled in production debugging, performance analysis, and managing infrastructure as code at tens of thousands of nodes, he combines hands-on engineering with hiring and mentorship experience. A Rust enthusiast and original author of rust-rdkafka, he contributes to open source and prefers systems-level problems—operating systems, monitoring and configuration languages are recurring interests. Comfortable driving multi-year initiatives independently across distributed teams, he’s known for improving on-call processes, SLOs, and incident response. Based in London, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment, fast learning, and strong communication to complex reliability challenges.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) - Double degree, Web Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) - Double degree, Web Engineering at Institut EurécomDiploma, Scientifico Bilingue, 95, Diploma, Scientifico Bilingue, 95 at Liceo ScientificoMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (20)
asynchronous10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
async10
kafka10
dockers10
message-queue10
kubernetes-pods10
error-handling10
logging10
rust10
paas10
futures9
cicd9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fede1024/rust-rdkafka
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
A fully asynchronous, futures-based Kafka client library for Rust based on librdkafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 392 commits, 64 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Federico made significant contributions to the `rust-rdkafka` repository, focusing on the development of the core consumer and producer functionalities. They implemented functionality for fetching metadata and the handling of errors in the librdkafka library. Further improvements include the introduction of futures-based processing and thread management to enhance performance. The user implemented key code refactoring.
asynchronousrustclient-librarykafkakafka-client
Yelp/paasta
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Federico focused on improving the log retrieval functionality within the Paasta platform. Their work involved fixing date handling issues, upgrading logging libraries, and addressing problems with scribe log retrieval. They also made minor code improvements such as removing unused imports and cleaning up time localization code, indicating a focus on operational efficiency and improving the platform's ability to retrieve logs.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
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