Marc Shapiro
Distinguished Research Scholar Emeritus (DRCE Émérite) at Inria
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolMarc Shapiro is a distinguished research scholar emeritus based in Paris with more than three decades of leadership in distributed computing, specializing in data replication, optimistic replication, consistency and reconciliation, and distributed algorithms. His career spans senior research roles at INRIA and Microsoft Research Cambridge, plus visiting positions at MIT, Cornell, and major French universities, reflecting deep academic and industrial influence. He co-founded Concordant.io to commercialize a decade of CRDT research for edge data systems, showing a rare ability to translate foundational theory into startup-grade technology. Known for work on reconciliation and garbage collection in distributed systems, he blends rigorous formalism with practical system design. Marc’s background in both physics and computer science and a postdoc from MIT underpin a systematic, multidisciplinary approach to hard distributed-systems problems. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who consistently anticipates real-world consistency challenges and builds durable, elegant solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIMaîtrise, Physics + Computer Science, Maîtrise, Physics + Computer Science at université de Franche-Comtébaccalauréat, C, baccalauréat, C at Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Layepost-doc, Computer Science, post-doc, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technologybaccalauréat, C, baccalauréat, C at Lycée Marcel Roby, Saint-Germain-en-Layeingénieur, Computer Science, ingénieur, Computer Science at ENSEEIHT
Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Saalik/MultiKVS
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:48 pushes in 7 months
sreeja/soteria
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:25 pushes in 18 days
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