Pierre-alain Ouvrard
Software Engineer at Aurora Labs
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre-alain Ouvrard is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in blockchain, cross-chain bridges, and decentralized systems, currently building at Aurora Labs in Seoul. His career includes hands-on development of the Rainbow Bridge (Ethereum to NEAR/Aurora), Merkle and Sparse Merkle Tree implementations, plasma research, and blockchain state storage from roles at Near, AERGO and Blocko. He brings a hardware-rooted engineering perspective from early electrical engineering internships and a KAIST exchange, which informs pragmatic system design and low-level protocol work. Comfortable in startup and R&D environments, he has seen teams scale and spun research into product (Aurora Labs). Known for combining research-driven approaches with production-grade coding, he focuses on empowering decentralized ecosystems through robust, interoperable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de LyonBaccalaureat, Science, Mathematics, Baccalaureat, Science, Mathematics at Lycée Fustel de CoulangesExchange Student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Exchange Student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, French, Spanish, Korean
Github Skills (57)
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near-blockchain10
kernel10
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rainbow-bridge10
ethereum10
blockchain10
monorepo10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aurora-is-near/rainbow-bridge-client
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Monorepo containing Aurora-maintained libraries for using the Rainbow Bridge
Contributions:13 releases, 53 reviews, 315 commits in 1 year 7 months
monoreporainbow-bridgeethereumnearprotocolaurora-is-near
aergoio/merkle-bridge
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
POC implementation of the Aergo Merkle Bridge
Contributions:267 commits, 4 PRs, 184 pushes in 1 year 2 months
bridgeblockchainmerkleaergopoc
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