Matthieu Baechler
Software Engineer at Malt
Le Pouzin, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthieu Baechler is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of experience building high-throughput, distributed systems using Scala, Akka, Pulsar and event-driven architectures. He has a strong open-source pedigree from work on Apache James, contributing mail-server backend features and scalability improvements for Cassandra-backed deployments. Matthieu has repeatedly led and modernized teams and platforms—from large-scale mail infrastructure and live sports broadcasting backends to CQRS/ES systems—bringing both hands-on coding and operational ownership. Currently splitting his time between consulting roles and in-house engineering, he pairs deep technical craft with coaching to raise team practices. Notably, his background combines low-level reliability work for millions of users with functional-programming design and pragmatic domain-driven patterns.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Github Skills (8)
javas10
cassandra10
java10
pulsar9
event-sourcing9
messaging9
reactor9
scala6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
apache/james-project
Oct 2015 - Sep 2022
Emails at the heart of your business logic!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 1133 commits, 82 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Matthieu implemented features, made bug fixes and added code related to mail processing backend functionalities. The user mainly worked on adding and refining modules such as quota mailing listener and its dependencies in the cassandra implementation. The commits shows modifications on the existing classes that involve data transfer objects and serialization improvements. Further changes include enhancements related to task queues, actor model, and event bus system as well as bug fixes regarding handling mail parameters.
business-logicmailserverimapsmtp
SquirclesIO/zio-s3
Jun 2024 - Mar 2026
An S3 client for ZIO
Contributions:6 releases, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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