Jerome Poichet
Software Engineering Manager at Instabudget
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerome Poichet is a seasoned software engineering manager with 16 years of experience building consumer-facing media and platform features at Google, including recent leadership on Pixel camera innovations like Best Take, Video Boost, and Zoom Enhance. He combines deep systems and mobile engineering roots — from architecting video encoding at Apple to shaping Fuchsia’s input and connectivity stacks — with hands-on contributions to open-source projects such as the Flutter engine and Android support libraries. Jerome has a proven track record of growing and leading distributed teams (scaling a Fuchsia connectivity team from 5 to 30 across five locations) and shipping complex, cross-team product launches. He also channels an entrepreneurial drive into startups and side ventures, founding Instabudget and consumer-facing businesses while maintaining technical leadership at scale. Based in Mountain View, he pairs formal telecom engineering training with a later architecture degree, reflecting a blend of analytical rigor and product-minded design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves seamlessly between low-level input systems and high-level user experiences.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Architecture - MArch Architecture, Master of Architecture - MArch Architecture at Academy of Art UniversityMaster of Science - MS Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science - MS Telecommunications Engineering at IMT AtlantiqueMath Sup/Math Spé, Math Sup/Math Spé at Lycee Kleber
French, English
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
flutter-apps10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
android10
speech-recognition10
flutter-game10
cprogramming-language10
leanback10
user-input10
flutter10
search-engine9
search-api9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_support
Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:126 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jerome's contributions primarily involve modifying the SearchFragment in Android support libraries, particularly related to speech recognition. They fixed an issue where audio wasn't properly closed by calling cancel on the recognizer and also addressed focus and UI related issues. Furthermore, the user incorporated changes related to text track styles and media protocols, indicating work on media playback functionality. Their changes span across different support library versions, suggesting a focus on maintaining and enhancing existing functionalities.
flutter/engine
Feb 2017 - May 2017
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jerome primarily contributed to the Flutter engine's Mozart integration. Their work focused on handling input events, specifically adapting the engine to changes in the Mozart API. They modified code related to pointer and keyboard events, incorporating new phases and actions while updating the code to reflect API adjustments for IME functionality. These changes were crucial for improving the engine's ability to manage input within the Fuchsia environment.
flutterflutter-enginec-plus-plus
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