Olivier Applin
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolOlivier Applin is a Software Development Engineer based in Montreal with 10 years of experience building resilient Java back-end systems and developer tooling. Currently contributing to the widely used AWS SDK for Java v2 at AWS, he brings practical expertise in microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native patterns across Java, Spring, and AWS. His background spans fintech and media platforms (Desjardins, TouchTunes) and includes hands-on work with Kafka, Redis, Couchbase, RabbitMQ and CI/CD. A trained musician and former audio entrepreneur and instructor, Olivier combines rigorous engineering discipline with a creative, systems-thinking approach to problem solving. Notably, his open-source contributions to the AWS SDK include bug fixes, multipart S3 workarounds, and API improvements that help Java developers worldwide.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Maitrise, Music Performance, Jazz, Maitrise, Music Performance, Jazz at Université LavalAEC Composition musicale et technique audio à l'image, Technique audio, AEC Composition musicale et technique audio à l'image, Technique audio at Campus Notre-Dame-de-FoyBaccalauréat, Informatique, Baccalauréat, Informatique at Université de Montréal
English, French
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Github Skills (16)
aws-s310
javas10
amazon-s310
java10
s3-bucket10
aws-sdk10
dynamodb9
amazon-dynamodb9
unit-testing8
material-design6
completablefuture6
prolog6
android6
spring-mvc6
spring6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-java-v2
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The official AWS SDK for Java - Version 2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:435 reviews, 83 commits, 166 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the Java-based AWS SDK v2, focusing on enhancing its functionality and addressing bugs. Their work included updating the `EnhancedAttributeValue` class to accept Collections, along with the corresponding unit tests. Further contributions involved resolving a bug in the S3 CopyObjectHelper and adding logging for expired credentials. Additional work includes a multipart download workaround, including support for Java-based S3 multipart clients, and adding javadoc improvements.
amazonaws-sdksdkawsjava
L-Applin/rhtm
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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