Francois Armand
CTO At Rudder.io at RUDDER
Dammarie-lè-Lys, Île-de-France, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancois Armand is a seasoned CTO and co-founder of Normation, steering the development of the open-source Rudder platform since 2009 and blending hands-on Scala engineering with strategic product and company leadership. With 17+ years in software, he pairs deep functional programming roots (OCaml, Coq, Scala since 2006) with pragmatic JVM expertise and a proven track record in DevOps and IT configuration management. He actively contributes to prominent open-source projects like ZIO, improving retry/repeat scheduling semantics for robust async workflows. Comfortable outside his technical comfort zone, he equally leads teams, handles commercial strategy, and scales a profitable business while keeping FLOSS values central. Based near Paris, he brings a unique combination of formal PL background and operator-focused engineering to build auditable, production-grade infrastructure tooling.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, computer science, Master's degree, computer science at ENSIIE
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
asynchronous10
effects10
zio10
functional-programming10
functional-programming-language10
async10
concurrency10
scala10
testing9
java6
deadlock6
scalaz6
hikaricp6
doobie6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 67 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Francois primarily contributed to the `zio/zio` project, which is a library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in Scala. Their contributions focused on refining the `Schedule` module, including simplifying methods and correcting comments. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested repeat and retry functionalities with the use of the ZIO library features. They addressed several issues related to the behaviour of `repeat` and `retry` policies.
functional-programmingqueuesstreamsasynchronicityasync
fanf/ncf
Feb 2015 - Aug 2023
ncf is a framework that runs in pure CFEngine language, to help structure your CFEngine policy and provide reusable, single purpose components distributed under the GPLv3 license.
Contributions:2 pushes, 9 branches in 8 years 7 months
policyreusablecfenginepurposeruns
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