Joseph Perez is a Rust software engineer with seven years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and language bindings from the ground up. Based in Île-de-France, he has led architecture and API redesigns at ZettaScale and Numberly, delivering production-grade Rust services that handle millions of messages per day with zero production bugs. He is a pragmatic performance optimizer—his proposals drove most of a 70% speedup at ZettaScale and he engineered a driver and MPSC channel innovations that improved ScyllaDB Rust driver performance by up to 50%. Equally comfortable across systems, bindings (Python, Kotlin, C/C++), and DevOps, he built tooling to validate API alignment across languages and automated performance testing. An active contributor to the scylla-rust-driver, he blends deep systems thinking with hands-on implementation to simplify ergonomics and squeeze out latency and resource gains.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Diplôme d'ingénieur at Grenoble INP - Ensimag
Async CQL driver for Rust, optimized for ScyllaDB!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:22 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the ScyllaDB Rust driver, focusing on optimizing performance and expanding functionality. They implemented features for the `Timestamp` struct, allowing its use as a `CqlValue`. The user also optimized the `PreparedStatement::compute_partition_key` function for improved performance. Additionally, the user exposed the node sharder and refactored partitioner name matches into methods.
Contributions:68 commits, 48 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
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Joseph Perez - Rust Software Engineer at ZettaScale Technology