Pierre Curto
Senior Solutions Consultant at Workiva
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Curto is a Senior Solutions Consultant based in Paris with 14 years of experience bridging technical engineering and pre-sales across enterprise software and SaaS. He combines deep hands-on backend development—evidenced by performance and stability contributions to Go projects like an LZ4 compression library and work on the V language—with client-facing expertise at Workiva and Unit4. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he balances performance trade-offs and code quality, often fixing subtle concurrency and I/O issues that improve reliability in production. His background in pre-sales and consulting across multiple vendors gives him a strong knack for translating complex technical constraints into clear commercial value.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ecole Centrale Paris
Github Skills (21)
lz410
vlang10
programming-language10
testing10
compression-algorithm10
command-line-arguments10
configuration-management10
data-structure10
command-line-parser10
compiler-design10
go10
argument-parsing10
data-structures10
json9
concurrency9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pierrec/lz4
Mar 2015 - Sep 2022
LZ4 compression and decompression in pure Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 222 commits, 102 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily focused on improving the performance and stability of the LZ4 compression library written in Go. Their contributions include fixing data races in the decompression process, optimizing block compression and decompression algorithms, and addressing issues related to stream checksums. They also reverted a change aimed at increasing compression efficiency, indicating a focus on balancing performance and compression ratio. Several commits show the user's attention to detail in testing and code quality.
golangdecompressioncompressionsnappypure-go
jessevdk/go-flags
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
go command line option parser
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to the development of the `go-flags` library. They added new features such as methods to recover struct fields associated with options and determine if an option was set with its default value. Furthermore, they added and refined the `ini-override` functionality, allowing the overriding of default option values from INI files and improving overall functionality of the library. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the library's parsing and configuration capabilities.
golanggetoptargument-parsingoptioncommand-line-parser
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