Julien Ridoux
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Ridoux is a Principal Software Engineer based in Australia with 20 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-scale distributed systems, networking, and microsecond-accurate clock synchronization for AWS. He leads cross-functional teams that automate global network behavior to maximize availability and performance while driving down costs, and previously built Amazon Time Sync to provide high-accuracy clocks for EC2 at scale. His background spans research and industry—from founding IoT product software and directing an NBN replica lab to publishing and transferring RADClock research into production kernels—blending deep systems thinking with hands-on implementation in Rust, C, Python and large-data platforms. Julien is known for tackling high-risk, high-impact problems others avoid, obsessing over latency and data-driven control of infrastructure worldwide.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Networking and Telecommunications, Master's Degree, Computer Science, Networking and Telecommunications at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Polytech'Nantes
French, English
Github Skills (8)
ntp10
flashing9
clock9
feed9
makefile6
arduino5
timestamps5
julia3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jrid/vim-jrid
Mar 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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