Méril Pilon
Chief Technology Officer at Plain
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMéril Pilon is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and hyper-scale gaming platforms. He has repeatedly scaled teams and organizations—growing departments to 15–30 engineers and establishing self-sufficient leadership layers while embedding performance frameworks and leveling matrices. Technically fluent across Kubernetes infrastructure, backend services, databases and frontend product experience, he translated complex backend systems into high-velocity product delivery, notably enabling 20,000 concurrent players for high-profile events. At Improbable he led a cloud cost optimization program that cut spend by 50% through architectural and operational improvements. A founding engineer at QuestDB, he has hands-on experience delivering a managed time-series DB service and contributed to growing its open-source community. Based in London, he combines pragmatic technical depth with people-first engineering practices to ship resilient, efficient platforms for fast-growing internet companies.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering at CPE LyonBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
timeseries-database10
databases10
java10
javas10
sql10
database10
postgresql9
cpp8
testing8
react6
callback6
archlinux6
docker6
jquery6
libpqxx6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
questdb/questdb
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
QuestDB is a high performance, open-source, time-series database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 97 commits, 99 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Méril primarily focused on fixing typos and code inconsistencies within various Java source files. Their contributions include correcting documentation, and addressing minor code issues in files related to HTTP multipart parsing, function factories, and testing. The user also worked on resolving issues in the PGWire and HTTP JSON APIs, specifically related to timings and improved error messages. Additionally, the user was involved in setting up the project's infrastructure, which included modifying the project's dependencies and configuring the Maven build.
questdbtimeseries-databasetime-serieslow-latencydatabase
msquared-io/pixel-streaming-client
Mar 2025 - Jan 2026
Browser client for viewing pixel-streamed content from MSquared events.
Contributions:3 releases, 14 reviews, 13 PRs in 10 months
morpheus-platform
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