Olivier Girondel
Senior Developer at Kardinal
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolOlivier Girondel is a senior developer based in Paris with 17 years of experience building high-performance internet systems and networking software. He brings deep low-level expertise in C and Erlang alongside modern backend skills in Go and NodeJS, and a strong grounding in TCP/IP, Unix/Linux and system automation. His open-source contributions include enhancing statistics and revproxy fixes in the widely used Yaws webserver and improving robustness in the erlexec project, reflecting a focus on reliability and operational telemetry. Olivier has led teams and companies—from running an instant messaging department at Meetic to founding and CEO roles—so he combines hands-on engineering with product and team leadership. He also applies machine learning intuition to systems design, with interest in artificial neural networks informing practical solutions across networking and backend services.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Sciences, Master, Computer Sciences at Université de Caen Normandie
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Github Skills (16)
webserver10
erlang10
otp10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
debug8
macos8
debugging8
osdev8
sys8
software-design8
system-design8
apidoc7
memory-management7
linux7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
saleyn/erlexec
Oct 2013 - Apr 2018
Execute and control OS processes from Erlang/OTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the code quality within the Erlang/OTP project. Their contributions include addressing issues related to exit status handling, indentation, memory management, and file descriptor usage. Furthermore, the user corrected documentation related to the `root` option. These changes suggest a focus on the C/C++ and Erlang portions of the project.
gleamerlangerlang-otplinuxotp
erlyaws/yaws
Jun 2009 - Jun 2009
Yaws webserver
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to adding and enhancing statistics functionalities within the Yaws webserver. They implemented a statistics module and integrated it with the core server logic, including adding configurations and handling byte counts. The contributions involved modifications to various parts of the codebase, including configuration files and the main server files, to enable the collection and display of server statistics. They also fixed a bug related to revproxy.
golanggleamerlangbeamwebserver
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