Nicolas Humbert
Team Lead at Scality
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Humbert is a Team Lead and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, based in New York, specializing in object storage, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures. At Scality he leads distributed teams building core RING and ARTESCA functionality, blending hands-on backend work in Node.js and Go with architecture, performance optimization and customer-facing product alignment. A contributor to the open-source Scality CloudServer project, he has improved S3 protocol compliance and multipart upload reliability—showing depth in storage internals and real-world interoperability. He co-founded a startup earlier in his career, giving him product sensibility and front-end experience (Angular, Swift) in addition to backend and orchestration (Kubernetes). Outside work he’s a curious learner, rugby player and travel enthusiast, traits that inform his collaborative, resilient leadership style.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
DumontDiplôme d'ingénieur en informatique et nouvelles technologies, Informatique et nouvelles technologies, Diplôme d'ingénieur en informatique et nouvelles technologies, Informatique et nouvelles technologies at ISEN - Institut Supérieur de l'Electronique et du Numérique
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Github Skills (16)
aws-s310
nodejs10
object-storage10
back-end-development10
angularjs9
deepcopy9
apidoc9
versioning9
api9
ios6
typescript6
javascript6
forms6
angularjs-directive6
angular6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scality/cloudserver
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 155 reviews, 290 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas focused on fixing and optimizing core backend functionalities, specifically around object storage and Amazon S3 protocol compliance. Their work involved limiting resource usage, addressing issues with access control list (ACL) headers, and ensuring compatibility with AWS S3's expected behavior, which included several code changes and unit tests. They also implemented fixes and improvements to the complete multipart upload functionality.
zenkostorageawsfront-endmultiple-clouds
scality/vaultclient-go
May 2020 - May 2022
Golang Vaultclient Library
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years
golangvault
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