Nils Ponsard
Research And Development Engineer at Inria
France
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Top SchoolNils 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 MontpellierDUT, Informatique, DUT, Informatique at IUT d'Aix-MarseilleBaccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Lycée Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (96)
embedded10
operating-system10
async10
hsm10
rust10
hal10
executor10
driver10
pkcs10
github9
http9
discord9
cryptography9
swig9
nitrokey9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
NilsPonsard/kudo
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 168 pushes, 60 branches in 1 month
nponsard/ariel-os
May 2025 - Jul 2026
Ariel OS is a library operating system for secure, memory-safe, low-power Internet of Things, written in Rust
Contributions:3 PRs, 633 pushes, 97 branches in 1 year 2 months
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