Gilles Dartiguelongue
Engineer at Gentoo Linux
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolGilles Dartiguelongue is a seasoned engineer with 19 years' experience building reliable backends, APIs and cloud services from startups to large platforms, currently working at Rakuten France and long active in the Gentoo GNOME ecosystem. He has led backend and API work for one of France’s first bare-metal cloud services at Scaleway, applying rigorous tests, documentation and microservice patterns (Python/Flask, Celery, PostgreSQL/Cassandra) at scale. An active open-source contributor, Gilles has improved core projects such as Celery (enhancing Riak backend support) and PackageKit, and has focused on Python 3 compatibility, test reliability and maintainability across projects. Known for pragmatic refactors and careful automation, he pairs systems-level thinking with attention to developer experience and reproducible testing. Based in Paris, he brings deep Linux/packaging knowledge from Gentoo and a track record of shipping production-quality distributed systems.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Master of Science at Ecole supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et ElectroniquePassy Saint Nicolas Buzenval
French, English, Japanese
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
back-end-development10
python10
testing10
riak10
celery10
portia10
pep10
portal10
fluentd10
backend10
unit-test10
wsgi9
travis-ci9
documentation9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jeanphix/Ghost.py
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Webkit based scriptable web browser for python.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:146 commits, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Gilles focused on improving the test suite and addressing test-related issues within the ghost.py project. They made changes to the test setup, including standardizing test startup procedures and redirecting WSGI server logs for better debugging. Furthermore, the user addressed an import issue, implemented test skips for Travis CI, and provided improved feedback for test failures, indicating a focus on test reliability and maintainability. The user also addressed logging practices related to test code.
pythonbrowserscriptableweb-browserpython3
fluent/fluent-logger-python
Jul 2013 - Feb 2015
A structured logger for Fluentd (Python)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 19 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Gilles primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Python-based fluent-logger library. Their contributions include fixing a reserved keyword issue, refactoring code for PEP8 compliance, enhancing Python 3 compatibility, and correcting deprecation warnings within the test suite. They also addressed logging issues, added tests and implemented structured message customizations.
pythonstructuredloggerfluentdlogging
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