Olivier Poitrey
Director Of Engineering, Games Engineering at Netflix
Vaucresson, Île-de-France, France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Poitrey is a veteran engineering leader and founder with 24 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and consumer products, currently Director of Engineering for Games at Netflix after leading Open Connect. He co-founded Dailymotion and NextDNS, blending entrepreneurial instinct with deep systems and networking expertise demonstrated by hands-on work on Go networking, HTTP/2, logging, and DNS proxy projects. Based in Palo Alto and originally from France, he combines platform-level thinking with low-level engineering—contributing to popular open-source projects like golang/net, zerolog, and QMK firmware. Olivier is comfortable shifting between product strategy and code, from architecting CDN and games infrastructure at Netflix to adding concrete improvements in libraries such as rs/cors and xid. He also advises and invests in startups, bringing a founder’s eye for product-market fit and operational resilience. An understated strength is his knack for optimizing performance and reliability across protocol stacks, evidenced by protocol-level fixes and benchmark-driven improvements in core libraries.
24 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
GOBELINS Paris
French, English
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Github Skills (81)
benchmark10
performance-analytics10
qmk-firmware10
api-client10
testing10
firmware10
http10
qmk10
c1110
c1710
http-client10
dns10
encoding10
arm10
systemd10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rs/xid
Nov 2015 - May 2018
xid is a globally unique id generator thought for the web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 27 commits, 55 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Olivier focused on optimizing the `xid` library, a globally unique ID generator. Their contributions primarily involved improving the library's performance through code optimization, specifically by unrolling loops and using `EncodeToString` to reduce overhead. They also introduced and refined benchmarks to compare the library's performance against alternative solutions. Furthermore, the user enhanced the library's robustness by addressing containerization and machine ID retrieval scenarios.
id-generator
rs/zerolog
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Zero Allocation JSON Logger
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 61 reviews, 144 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on improving the `rs/zerolog` library by enhancing its thread safety and functionality. Their commits included making the `GlobalLevel` and `DisableSampling` thread-safe to improve the robustness of the logging system. The user also removed a dependency on the `syslog` library and added more unit tests to increase the reliability of the library. The user further extended the library's capabilities by adding support for different field types and other improvements.
golangjson-loggerzerologgerzero-allocation
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