Gabin Boyer
Co-Founder & CEO at Focus Tree
France
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Top SchoolGabin Boyer is a founder-engineer with a decade of experience building developer-focused infrastructure and education technology, currently leading Focus Tree as Co-Founder & CEO to scale learning for over a billion students. A Telecom ParisTech-trained engineer, he blends product leadership with hands-on backend work, notably contributing robust protocol and socket handling to the popular hot-shots Node.js statsd client. He has a strong QA and test-automation background demonstrated by improving acceptance tests for DataDog’s Terraform provider, raising reliability for synthetics and composite monitors. Gabin’s career sits at the intersection of scalable server engineering and rigorous testing, enabling him to ship resilient systems while steering company strategy. Colocated in France, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset informed by deep technical craft and a knack for solving low-level reliability challenges that often go unnoticed.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) at Telecom ParisTechMPSI/MP*, MPSI/MP* at Lycée Corneilles
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Github Skills (20)
testing10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
implement10
terraformer10
socket10
go10
datadog10
nodejs10
protocols10
unix-socket10
dgram9
browser-testing9
api-testing9
networking8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/terraform-provider-datadog
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Terraform Datadog provider
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gabin's primary contribution focused on improving the quality of the `datadog/terraform-provider-datadog` Terraform provider. Their work involved fixing and adding acceptance tests for synthetics tests, including API and browser tests. They added tests for various options and supported synthetics tests in composite monitors, enhancing the testing coverage and reliability of the provider.
terraform-providerproviderdatadogterraform
brightcove/hot-shots
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Node.js client for statsd, DogStatsD, and Telegraf
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Gabin primarily focused on enhancing the `hot-shots` library's capabilities related to different protocols and their connection handling. The contributions included adding support for User Datagram Sockets (UDS) and later refactoring the code to utilize unix domain datagram sockets. Furthermore, the user addressed exception handling and protocol-related naming issues. These changes aimed to improve the library's robustness and flexibility in its communication protocols.
js-clientnode-jsdogstatsdtelegramnodejs
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