Ludovic Balsan
Senior Online Client Engineer at The Coalition Studio
France
Summary
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Top SchoolLudovic Balsan is a senior online client engineer with over 15 years building high-performance networked systems for AAA games and online services, currently leading server infrastructure work at The Coalition Studio. He specializes in low-level network programming, replication protocols, and AWS-driven migrations and automation, having led a team through a major cloud migration at Ubisoft Ivory Tower. His background spans C/C++ systems, dedicated servers, P2P synchronization, and DevOps across both on-prem and cloud-hosted architectures, with hands-on experience in databases like MySQL/Postgres and caches such as Redis. An active contributor to open-source, he has enhanced a Solana Go SDK—demonstrating curiosity beyond games into blockchain tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who mentors engineers to own components while relentlessly optimizing for performance and robustness.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Information Technology, DUT Information Technology at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIEngineer / Master degree Information Technology, Engineer / Master degree Information Technology at ESSI
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (3)
rpc10
go10
documentation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gagliardetto/solana-go
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Go SDK library and RPC client for the Solana Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 releases, 27 reviews, 478 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ludovic made several contributions to the Solana Go SDK library, including adding detailed documentation to existing RPC methods. They also refactored the codebase by moving deprecated RPC methods to a dedicated file, improving code organization and maintainability. Further, the user extended the `getAccountInfo` method and added new methods for retrieving data, indicating a focus on enhancing the library's capabilities for interacting with the Solana blockchain.
golangsolanablockchainsdksdk-go
gagliardetto/serum-go
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 7 pushes in 5 months
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