Jérôme Mahuet
Principal Engineer at Iconosquare
Greater Limoges Area France
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Top SchoolJérôme Mahuet is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver scalable backend and frontend systems, primarily at Iconosquare where he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Head of Development and now Principal Engineer. He specializes in high-throughput social analytics platforms and distributed systems, having helped scale the early Instagram analytics stack at Statigram to millions of users. A hands-on polyglot, Jérôme contributes to open source—most notably adding Haskell-based benchmarks and PostgreSQL-backed tests to the widely used TechEmpower FrameworkBenchmarks—and maintains full-stack projects that improve UX and performance. Based in the Limoges area of France, he blends technical leadership with pragmatic engineering, often focusing on performance optimizations and maintainable refactors that quietly reduce operational costs.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at 3iL Ingénieurs
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Github Skills (30)
postgresql10
python10
flask-ask10
placeholder10
spock10
web-framework10
haskell10
flask10
benchmark9
json9
benchmarking9
databases9
database9
querying9
concurrency8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Rydgel/Fake-images-please
Aug 2012 - Nov 2022
Fakeimg.pl is a little tool that generates images with an URL. Choose the size, the colors, even the text. Oh… and it’s free.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:188 commits, 20 PRs, 74 pushes in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the placeholder image generator. Their contributions included refactoring code for improved readability and maintainability, adding new features like retina display support and font size control, and implementing various options for URL customization. Furthermore, the user addressed encoding issues, refactored the file structure and improved user interface.
pythonfakeimgfake-images
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily contributed to the development of a Haskell-based web application within the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project. Their work included implementing various tests (JSON serialization, database queries, and plaintext responses) using the Spock framework. They integrated database interactions with PostgreSQL and addressed performance optimizations. Further development included adding features like database updates and handling of bad inputs.
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