Pierre Laporte
Senior Software Engineer at Dremio
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolPierre Laporte is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in performance, chaos engineering and distributed systems, currently working at Dremio from Lille, France. He progressed from Java/JavaEE developer to architect and staff engineer roles at companies like DataStax, where he led automated large-scale performance and chaos test campaigns that improved cloud and on-prem reliability and recovered major customer deals. Pierre runs and teaches Java performance tuning workshops since 2011, authors bilingual articles on JVM internals, and regularly speaks at international conferences. He combines deep JVM-level knowledge and practical tooling (async-profiler, Gatling, Chaos-Mesh, Kubernetes) with hands-on troubleshooting of production incidents and SLO-driven architecture analysis. A not-so-obvious strength is his track record of turning complex, multi-datacenter failure scenarios into repeatable tests and documentation that materially reduced diagnostic time and prevented poor-performing releases.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in Computer Science, Master's degree in Computer Science at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)Associate's degree in Computer Science, Associate's degree in Computer Science at IUT 'A' de Lille
French, English
Github Skills (99)
gatling10
maintenance10
cassandra10
datastax10
java10
polaris10
graphite-carbon10
driver10
nosql9
sampling9
loadtest9
glibc9
database9
converting9
performance-testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
datastax/gatling-dse-plugin
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:55 commits, 12 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 months
pingtimeout/nodesync-status
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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