Georges Racinet
Software Engineer at Orbeet
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarGeorges Racinet is a seasoned software engineer based in Paris with 17 years of experience building multi-language systems and championing Free Software. A Mercurial core contributor and maintainer of Heptapod (the GitLab+Mercurial integration), he blends deep VCS expertise with practical product work from cofounding Anybox to current roles at Octobus and Orbeet. His open-source contributions include non-trivial Rust work for Python interoperability—implementing PyCapsule support in rust-cpython—demonstrating comfort across language boundaries and native/C API integration. Known for quietly shipping durable tooling and bridging communities, he brings both protocol-level perspective and hands-on backend engineering to complex developer-facing projects.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
macros10
rust10
capi10
cffi10
ffi10
foreign10
python9
documentation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dgrunwald/rust-cpython
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
Rust <-> Python bindings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 11 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Georges primarily contributed to the `rust-cpython` project by implementing and refining the `PyCapsule` feature, a wrapper for Python capsules that allows for the interaction with C APIs. They introduced macros and functions to simplify the creation and retrieval of function pointers and data within capsules. The work involved modifications to the core `src/objects/capsule.rs` file, improving documentation, and adding examples to showcase the feature's usage.
rustpython-bindingspython
gracinet/salt
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 11 months
management-systeminfrastructure-automationdevopsansibleinfrastructure
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