Frédéric Bidon is an owner and seasoned builder with over 8 years of focused experience delivering backend systems, cloud-native architectures, and secure identity solutions for finance and enterprise customers. He combines hands-on engineering in Go, Node.js and database platforms (Postgres, Oracle, Snowflake, CockroachDB) with program and team leadership, having led API teams and managed enterprise data programs at firms like One Concern, Carmignac and BMW Finance. A pragmatic security-minded architect, he designs zero-trust APIs and identity management (Keycloak, OpenID) and contributes to notable open-source projects such as go-swagger and kubescape, improving API generation and Kubernetes security tooling. His background spans distributed ledgers and financial risk systems, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems, cloud storage, and domain expertise in fund management and trading infrastructure. Based in France, he runs consulting work through Pairwise and is known for improving code quality, CI/CD hygiene and long-lived data architectures while still shipping production-ready code.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering (MSc), Telecomunications, Computer Science, Engineering (MSc), Telecomunications, Computer Science at Télécom Paris
Master, Asset Management, Master, Asset Management at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
Master, Applied Mathematics (Finance, Insurance), Master, Applied Mathematics (Finance, Insurance) at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam
Contributions:65 reviews, 232 commits, 473 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Frédéric made several contributions to the go-swagger project, including fixing bugs, such as issues with invalid parameters and code generation with circular references and added support for multiple mime type specifications, with parameters, and for empty enum values. The user also refactored aspects of the code and added tests for various features and edge cases, focusing on improving the reliability and correctness of the generated code. Furthermore, the user added the ability to generate models from a spec that contains only definitions.
Contributions:10 commits, 19 PRs, 58 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Frédéric primarily focused on improving the project's codebase by adhering to modern Go linting standards and incorporating automated linting checks. They also updated vendor dependencies and fixed an obsolete Prometheus API call, indicating a focus on code quality and library maintenance. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to refresh tokens and CORS headers, demonstrating involvement in security, API design, and potentially deployment configuration.
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