Louis Cherel
Software Developer at Front
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLouis Cherel is a seasoned software developer based in Paris with a decade of experience building backend systems, optimizing SQL performance, and hardening application security. He combines hands-on engineering at Front and La Javaness with extensive teaching experience across French engineering schools, delivering courses from secure C programming and compilation theory to modern web stacks like Node.js and Vue.js. Pragmatic and performance-minded, he has driven 10x–1000x query optimizations, implemented robust JWT/group permission models, and contributed fixes and tests to the onion C HTTP library's WebSocket implementation. Comfortable across low-level C work and full-stack JavaScript, he also automates CI/CD workflows and integrates security tooling into pipelines, reflecting a blend of production delivery and pedagogy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénierie informatique, Ingénierie informatique at EFREI - Ecole Française d'Electronique et d'InformatiqueComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Staffordshire University
French, English
Github Skills (5)
c1710
http10
websocket10
c1110
unit-testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davidmoreno/onion
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Louis primarily contributed to the `onion` C library, focusing on improving the websocket implementation. Their work involved adding features like a closing button to a websocket example and fixing connection handling issues. They also addressed bugs related to properly closing connections, sending status codes, and fixing potential errors during websocket header reading. Additionally, they added unit tests to validate websocket closing and packet reading functionality.
web-applicationsweb-serverc-librarycgibeast
Musinux/first-vue-app
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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