Patrick Mezard
Technical Lead at Claap
Brest, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Mezard is a Technical Lead with 14 years of experience building high-performance web platforms and distributed systems, currently driving Claap’s async video collaboration product for the hybrid work era. He combines hands-on engineering in Python, Go, C#, C++ and Java with technical leadership across deployment, testing, monitoring and architecture. Patrick has led backend teams and migrations at startups and enterprises—designing microservices, Kubernetes/GCP deployments, search and indexing work, and complex data migrations. He is an active open-source contributor with improvements to core Go tooling and libraries like the Go runtime, goproxy and Bleve, demonstrating attention to stability and documentation. Known for practical infrastructure improvements (from VCS migrations to bolstering CI and build systems), he favors measurable reliability and developer productivity. Based in Brest, France, he thrives in remote, fast-paced environments where focused execution trumps meetings.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
testing10
windows10
proxy10
indexing10
http-proxy10
system-calls10
go10
text-search10
documentation10
api-design9
programming-language9
golang9
concurrency9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
elazarl/goproxy
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
An HTTP proxy library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on improving the examples within the goproxy library. They refactored existing examples, renaming and documenting them to improve clarity and usability. Contributions include modifying existing example code, adding documentation, and correcting typos to improve the overall quality of the examples. The changes suggest a focus on providing clear and working examples for the goproxy library users.
golangproxy-serverproxyfiddlerhttp-proxy
blevesearch/bleve
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
A modern text/numeric/geo-spatial/vector indexing library for go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 20 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on improving the documentation of the `bleve` library, specifically concerning indexing and mapping interactions. They implemented static document mappings and simplified code related to field analyzer resolution. Furthermore, the user added the "nosync" option for boltdb, potentially improving indexing performance, and documented various aspects of the index, including field values storage and retrieval. The commits also included enhancing test coverage and documentation.
golangtext-indexingindexing
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