Gérald Oster
Associate Professor
Nancy, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolGérald Oster is an associate professor and researcher based in Nancy, France, with 17 years of experience specializing in optimistic replication and collaborative editing systems. He earned his PhD in computer science from Université Henri Poincaré and completed a postdoc at ETH Zurich, grounding his work in both theoretical distributed systems and practical CSCW applications. Gérald has held research and teaching roles at INRIA, LORIA and TELECOM Nancy, where he focuses on operational transformation and peer-to-peer approaches to real-time collaboration. His work bridges academic rigor and applied system design, often exploring how replication models can reduce user friction and even procrastination in cooperative tools. Known for deep domain expertise rather than broad tool-building, he brings nuanced insights into consistency models that scale to decentralized environments. Colleagues value him for translating complex distributed algorithms into usable collaboration systems.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1
English, French
Github Skills (42)
nancy10
mute10
telecom10
server-side-api9
data-structures8
python8
replication8
collaborative-editing8
machine-learning8
server-side7
p2p6
api6
crdt6
isomorphic6
middleware6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oster/dso6-core
Apr 2009 - Apr 2011
Contributions:18 commits in 2 years
openpaas-ng/netflux
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
JavaScript client side API based on WebRTC & WebSocket
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years
apiwebsocketsjavascript-clientwsclient-side
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