Maxime Brugidou
VP Engineering, Platform
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolMaxime Brugidou is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and operating very large-scale infrastructure and platform teams, currently serving as VP Engineering, Platform at Criteo in Paris. He blends deep systems and SRE expertise—managing multi-petabyte Hadoop clusters, large-scale Kafka/Cassandra deployments, and automated bare-metal datacenters—with a strong background in backend engineering and algorithmic R&D. A long-time proponent of open source, he has contributed bug fixes and quality tests to the widely used Mono runtime, showing attention to low-level runtime correctness. Maxime is known for driving DevOps and private cloud initiatives (OpenStack, Mesos/YARN) and for evangelizing modern tooling across organisations. He pairs hands-on technical problem solving with people leadership, scaling teams and practices from prototyping to production. Curious and pragmatic, he balances a hacker’s urge to build with a strategic vision for innovation and complexity.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'Ingénieur CS, Diplôme d'Ingénieur CS at CentraleSupélecMaster of Engineering Computer Science, Master of Engineering Computer Science at Cornell UniversityMathematics Physics and Computer Science, Mathematics Physics and Computer Science at Lycée Sainte Geneviève
French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
runtimes10
csharp10
concurrency10
dotnet-core10
garbage-collector9
testing8
hive6
user-defined-function6
rank6
regex6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mono/mono
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Maxime focused on bug fixes and improvements within the Mono runtime, specifically related to the .NET implementation. Their contributions included fixing issues in `SqlCommand.BeginExecuteInternal`, `SemaphoreSlim.Wait`, and `ConcurrentBag.TryTake`/`TryPeek` functionalities. Additionally, the user added unit tests for `ConcurrentBag`, ensuring code reliability and demonstrating a focus on quality assurance. These changes suggest a strong understanding of the Mono runtime's core components.
dotnetjitruntimemonoandroid
brugidou/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:40 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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