Florent Bruneau is a Senior Software Engineer with 21 years’ experience specializing in system programming, high-performance C/C++ development, and storage/indexing engines. He has built and optimized core infrastructure—databases, lockless messaging, and cross-platform libraries—at companies from Exalead to Intersec Group and currently at Apple. Deep knowledge of OS internals, compilers, CPU/memory profiling and low-level issues (caches, alignment, endianness) informs his pragmatic approach to algorithmic complexity and performance tuning. He has led technical teams as Chief Scientist, recruiting and coaching engineers while driving architecture for high-throughput NoSQL systems. Comfortable across Linux, Solaris, macOS and Windows, he combines academic rigor from École Polytechnique and Télécom with hands-on production experience. A longtime contributor to open-source system tooling, he often surfaces subtle machine-level fixes that yield outsized performance gains.
21 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree / Engineering degree, Computer science, Master degree / Engineering degree, Computer science at Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications
Contributions:225 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 years 5 months
useful-toolsc-libc-extension
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Florent Bruneau - Senior Software Engineer at Apple