Francois Visconte
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
France
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Top SchoolFrancois Visconte is a Staff Software Engineer based in France with 16 years building and operating high-traffic distributed systems, currently shaping streaming and observability infrastructure at Datadog. He has progressed from hands-on systems and image-search backend work to leading streaming teams, combining deep production SRE experience with software leadership. Passionate about reliability at scale, he focuses on designing resilient architectures that tolerate real-world constraints and evolving traffic patterns. An active contributor to open-source tooling for performance-sensitive code—evidenced by low-level work integrating libzstd into a Go wrapper—he brings both systems-level C/Go expertise and pragmatic engineering judgment.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 Genie Informatique, Master 2 Genie Informatique at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
preprocessing10
preprocess10
compression-algorithm10
c-preprocessor10
zstandard10
c1110
c1710
directives10
go10
preprocessor10
directive10
build-system9
open-source8
nginx6
frontend6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/zstd
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Zstd wrapper for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Francois's contributions center around integrating the `libzstd` library, a Zstandard compression library, into the project. They've added preprocessor directives to the C source files to support building against an external `libzstd`. Their commits include the addition of a build configuration file, ensuring compatibility with external library builds and adjusting version constraints. The user has also added a utility to automatically wrap zstd source code inside preprocessor directives.
golangzstd
dopuskh3/openFrameworks
Sep 2010 - Oct 2010
Contributions:29 commits in 14 days
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