Francois Poinsot
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Cognite
Mougins, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolFrancois Poinsot is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of experience modernizing and stabilizing large-scale auction platforms and cloud-native services. He has moved legacy monoliths to microservices, built developer-friendly tooling (including a kubectl-based CLI), and redesigned Terraform deployments to enable broader team contributions. At Ricardo and Cognite he combined SRE practices, observability (Prometheus, Jaeger), and platform automation on GCP and Kubernetes to improve reliability and reduce operational friction. He is a pragmatic backend engineer with strong Kafka expertise—contributing to IBM/sarama to improve transactional consumer semantics—which reflects a deep understanding of distributed message systems. Based in Mougins, France, he pairs curiosity about innovation with a down-to-earth focus on making long-lived systems shine.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Engineer's degree at EPSI
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Github Skills (10)
kafka10
apache-kafka10
go10
kafka-node10
concurrency10
kafkajs10
error-handling9
data-structures8
data-structure8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/sarama
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 37 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Francois primarily contributed to the `ibm/sarama` repository, a Go library for Apache Kafka. Their work focused on enhancing the consumer functionality, addressing bugs, and adding support for transactional message processing. They implemented features related to control records, isolation levels, and filtering uncommitted messages to improve consumer behavior and adherence to Kafka's transactional semantics. Their contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of Kafka's internal mechanisms and the intricacies of building a robust Kafka client library.
golangsaramaapache-kafkago-libraryapache
ricardoarchive/kafka-tools
Jul 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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