Summary
Nils Ponsard is a Research and Development Engineer based in France with 8 years of hands-on experience building high-performance systems in Rust, Go, and TypeScript. He blends systems-level programming (FUSE/Dokan, PKCS#11 libraries) with cloud-native deployment skills—Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform and GCP—to deliver production-ready services. At HOSTEUR he migrated PHP services to concurrent Go implementations and authored a Kubernetes operator for CoreDNS, demonstrating both performance-first engineering and operational craftsmanship. Recent roles include web and full-stack work with Next.js and Supabase as well as continuing R&D at Inria, reflecting a mix of research rigor and product focus. An early passion for computers turned into a habit of publishing practical open-source tooling (notably a Rust PKCS#11 library) and shipping CI/CD to maintain code quality. Outside work he sharpens his eye through photography, bringing a detail-oriented aesthetic to technical problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
DevOps Engineering degree, DevOps Engineering degree at Polytech Montpellier
DUT, Informatique, DUT, Informatique at IUT d'Aix-Marseille
Baccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Lycée Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
English, Italian, French