Florian Dehau
Backend Software Engineer at Datadog
Boulogne-Billancourt, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolFlorian Dehau is a backend software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, resilient distributed systems, currently contributing at Datadog from Boulogne-Billancourt. He has strong hands-on experience designing high-throughput APIs and asynchronous Kafka-based workloads, maintaining services that communicate concurrently with hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. At Netatmo he improved CI/CD and observability, led B2B integrations and mentored junior engineers, demonstrating a practical focus on reliability and efficiency. An active open-source contributor, he refactored the popular Rust terminal UI project tui-rs to use conditional backends and added a crossterm backend, showing attention to maintainability and tooling polish. He combines pragmatic simplicity with a curiosity for low-level system behavior and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at TELECOM Nancy
French, English
Github Skills (9)
feature-flags10
refactoring10
rust10
backend10
back-end-development10
refactor9
build-system9
terminal-ui9
cicd5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fdehau/tui-rs
Nov 2016 - Aug 2022
Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 26 reviews, 303 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on refactoring the tui-rs project, converting backends to conditional features, which involved implementing feature flags for compilation. Their contributions included restructuring the backend implementations, focusing on termion and rustbox, indicating a deep knowledge of terminal UI frameworks and their underlying mechanisms. Furthermore, they added a new crossterm backend and resolved both clippy and rustfmt errors. These modifications demonstrate an understanding of code style and project maintainability.
terminal-apprustdashboardsuser-interfacesterminal
fdehau/deck
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
CLI to make HTML presentations from Markdown documents
Contributions:38 commits, 15 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 1 month
presentationrustmarkdowncli
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