Manfred Touron
Co-Founder & VP Engineering at Gno.land (New Tendermint)
France
Summary
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Top SchoolManfred Touron is a security-focused entrepreneur and engineer with 15 years of experience building distributed, autonomous systems and low-cost infrastructure. As co-founder and VP Engineering at Gno.land and founder of Berty Technologies, he has led work from the world’s first dedicated ARM-based IaaS at Scaleway to a censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging app that functions without internet access. He combines hardware tinkering, cryptography and software to optimize performance and operational costs—evidenced by projects like the ultra-compact Scaleway bare-metal server and the Wulo rideshare optimization. A relentless open-source practitioner, he maintains a 1000+ day GitHub streak with thousands of commits yearly and major contributions to projects such as a Go VM/blockchain (gno) and multi-architecture tooling (qemu-user-static). Known for rapid prototyping, high productivity and community-first leadership, he also brings hands-on DevOps and backend expertise across languages like Go, Node and Python. Based in France, he mixes academic pedigree in security and distributed systems with a track record of turning ambitious privacy and infrastructure ideas into production reality.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechMusic Programming, Music Programming at CourseraOpen-Source system automation pedagogy, Open-Source system automation pedagogy at 42 Paris
French, English, madness 🤪
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Github Skills (53)
github-ci10
docker10
coffeescript10
gitlab-api10
back-end-development10
go-gorm10
apidoc10
scripting10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
virtual-machine10
template-engine10
dockers10
cicd10
homebrew10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
moul/assh
Aug 2010 - Jan 2023
:computer: make your ssh client smarter
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 21 reviews, 928 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Manfred appears to be primarily focused on back-end development, as evidenced by their contributions to the core logic and configuration of the project. Their work includes initializing the application, implementing data structures, integrating YAML configuration parsing, and adding a proxy command with host-port functionality. Additionally, the user demonstrated expertise in template engines and hook implementations, indicating an effort to provide customizable behavior, along with adding web app routes.
proxysmarterdevopssshssh-client
moul/node-gitlab
Dec 2012 - Oct 2019
DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/node-gitlab/node-gitlab
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 187 commits, 24 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Manfred primarily worked on the foundational components and API interactions of the project. They focused on creating and modifying API functionalities within the `ApiBase` and `ApiV2` classes. The commits also show work on example files demonstrating how to use the API, including creating credentials and listing projects, indicating a focus on core API development. Moreover, the user enhanced the debugging system of the API, further emphasizing the backend focus.
javascriptgitlabnodejsnode-gitlabnode
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