Pierre Bourdon
Software Engineer
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Pierre Bourdon is a Zurich-based software engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in infrastructure security, anti-abuse systems, and site reliability engineering. At Google he progressed from SRE to Staff Software Engineer, leading a team to assess and harden production network security and delivering large-scale infrastructure security improvements. He blends deep systems competence with low-level expertise in binary emulation and reverse engineering across x86, PowerPC and ARM—work he has presented at technical conferences and applied to open-source projects like the Dolphin emulator (shader codegen and performance optimizations). Comfortable moving between high-level security architecture and assembly-level analysis, Pierre is as likely to design DDoS and key-management reliability features as he is to refactor pixel shader generation for a major emulator.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
English, French, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (26)
c-language10
shader10
python10
dictionary10
performance-optimization10
graphics-programming10
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
dolphin-emu/dolphin
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:54 reviews, 718 commits, 699 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily focused on code generation and optimization within the Dolphin Emulator project, specifically concerning pixel shader generation. Their contributions included cleaning up and refactoring shader code for various rendering scenarios and depth-related graphics bugs, as well as integrating performance improvements through the use of the MOVBE instruction. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging features from different development branches, indicating contributions across the project's core functionality.
gameboycppemulatorgamesplatforms
delroth/dolphin
Feb 2014 - Nov 2018
Dolphin is a GameCube/Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC, with improvements.
Contributions:60 commits, 3 PRs, 148 pushes in 4 years 9 months
gameboyemulatorgamesplatformsgamecube
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