Louis-axel Viala
Responsable De Produit at Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre-mer
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolLouis-Axel Viala is a product leader and digital project manager with 12 years' experience delivering digital transformation and product improvements across public sector and large enterprises. Currently Responsable de Produit at the French Ministère de l'Intérieur, he blends user-centered discovery, cross-functional facilitation and change management to drive features from requirements to delivery. His background spans fleet telematics, construction-site safety, intranet and CMS migrations, and large-scale platform rollouts for clients like Nissan and Bouygues. A hands-on technophile, he also contributes to open-source systems-level projects in Rust and C++—improving DNS, PowerDNS and sysinfo codebases—bringing a developer’s attention to error handling and maintainability to product decisions. Energetic and curious, he treats change as an opportunity and pairs strategic thinking with practical process design and user workshops.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
DUT métiers du multimédia et de l'internet, DUT métiers du multimédia et de l'internet at IUT MONTPELLIER-SETEBaccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Lycée NeversEpitechHND Sales Unit Management, HND Sales Unit Management at Sud Formation - CCI Montpellier - NegoventisBachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Management at ESSCAMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Strategy & Digital Communication, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Strategy & Digital Communication at Narratiiv
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
c-language10
system-programming10
powerdns10
linux10
refactor10
dnssec10
dns10
error-handling10
rust10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
dns-resolver9
clang-tidy9
server9
nameserver9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hickory-dns/hickory-dns
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
A Rust based DNS client, server, and resolver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 46 commits, 22 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Louis-axel primarily focused on improving the codebase by addressing unwraps and panics in several areas, including zone parsing, client stream handling, and DNSSEC operations. They also refactored code to utilize Result types and the `?` operator for better error handling and added tests to ensure robust code. Their contributions show a focus on code quality, error resilience, and overall system stability within the DNS server and client applications.
mdnsresolvedns-clientdnsresolver
PowerDNS/pdns
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 36 commits, 16 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Louis-axel primarily contributed to the PowerDNS project by refactoring and improving the codebase. They focused on optimizing existing functions, like getNSEC3PARAM, and ensuring code quality through the use of modern C++ features, like `std::array` and `nullptr`. The user also addressed clang-tidy issues, enhancing code readability and maintainability, specifically within the bind-backend and geoipbackend modules. They also updated and improved the zoneparser-tng, making sure it's compatible and maintainable.
dnsdistpowerdns-recursordnssystems-programmingrecursor
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