Matthieu Caneill
Engineering Manager at Picnic Technologies
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthieu Caneill is an engineering manager and former PhD researcher with 13 years of experience building reliable data processing systems, backends, and analytics platforms—from smartphones and geolocated game backends to cloud and bare-metal infrastructure. He combines hands-on engineering (Python, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, DevOps with Debian/Ansible/Docker) with people leadership, currently leading a platform team for analytics at Picnic Technologies. His academic work on distributed, real-time streaming and monitoring systems informs a pragmatic approach to large-scale data abstractions and uptime-focused design. A long-time free-software contributor, he enhanced Coccinelle with Firehose XML output and has a track record of shipping small services and APIs that sustained near-100% uptime for years. Based in the Netherlands, he brings both deep systems research expertise and practical production experience to data engineering and backend challenges.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Université Grenoble AlpesMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in PragueEngineering master Computer Software engineering, Engineering master Computer Software engineering at Polytech GrenobleMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
French, English, German
Github Skills (3)
xml10
python10
testing6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
coccinelle/coccinelle
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Source code of the Coccinelle project (mirror of the main Coccinelle repository located at Inria)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthieu primarily focused on enhancing the Coccinelle project with Firehose XML output capabilities. They implemented the `xml_firehose` module, allowing Coccinelle to generate Firehose-compatible XML reports for issues. Further contributions included correcting Firehose importation, adding support for package metadata, and refining the output format by incorporating environment variables and path handling. They introduced a mechanism to reference semantic patch names via testid.
inriacoccinelle
matthieucan/snowflake-docset
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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