Matthieu Riou
Founder, CTO at The Apache Software Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthieu Riou is a seasoned founder and CTO with 20 years of engineering experience and 14+ years architecting complex systems for banking, SaaS, and open source communities. As founder of BlockCypher he built a Platform-as-a-Service that simplifies blockchain development with high-level web APIs, and he continues to consult on scalable infrastructure such as Joyent’s load balancer. A former Apache vice president and committer who led Apache ODE and mentored projects like Cassandra, he blends deep open-source stewardship with pragmatic product engineering. He’s expert in web services, process orchestration and multi-tenant SaaS platform design, having extended runtimes and designed custom type systems in production. Based in San Francisco, Matthieu pairs entrepreneurial drive with hands-on architecture work and a track record of making complex distributed systems safer and more approachable for developers.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplome d'Ingenieur (~ Masters' Degree), Diplome d'Ingenieur (~ Masters' Degree) at Ecole des Mines d'Alès
French
Github Skills (54)
ode10
blockcypher10
bitcoin10
apache10
java10
cryptocurrency10
ethereum10
cryptography10
blockchain10
p2p10
staging9
geth9
nextjs9
typescript9
buildr9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
blockcypher/java-client
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Java SDK for BlockCypher
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
blockchainsdkjavajava-sdkblockcypher
matthieu/apache-ode
May 2006 - Feb 2009
Contributions:1111 commits in 2 years 10 months
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