François Rousseau
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois Rousseau is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with 13 years of experience building dependable infrastructure and backend systems at Google. With a strong academic foundation (PhD from École Polytechnique) and engineering training from Telecom ParisTech, he blends research-level rigor with pragmatic production engineering. He has deep experience in crash reporting, release engineering, and platform hardening—contributing notable fixes and architecture work to high-profile open-source projects like Chromium’s Crashpad, including Fuchsia and ARM64 support. Known as a "data miner" and "machine teacher," he pairs systems design and DevOps skills to optimize reliability and performance across large codebases. Colleagues appreciate his ability to remove legacy cruft and improve long-lived systems while mentoring teams to adopt robust, scalable practices.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Ecole polytechniqueMaster of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Engineering Diploma, Engineering Diploma at Telecom ParisTech
Github Skills (9)
arm10
crash-reports10
debug10
c-language10
fuchsia10
cprogramming-language10
system-design9
build-management9
release-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/crashpad
Sep 2018 - Aug 2022
A crash-reporting system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:40 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:François primarily contributed to the crash reporting system, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to Fuchsia, the target operating system. Their work involved modifying exception handling mechanisms, integrating support for ARM64 architecture, and optimizing file operations. They also implemented code changes related to system design, including database size calculations and removing legacy code. The user demonstrated skills related to code and system design, as well as working with build and release engineering.
crash-reportingreportingperl
frncsrss/interviews
Feb 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:403 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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