Pierre-marie P
Co-Founder & CEO at ACINQ
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre-marie P is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable payment infrastructure from Paris—co-founding ACINQ and driving its mission to scale Bitcoin via the Lightning Network. He blends CEO-level strategic vision with hands-on backend engineering, contributing to prominent open-source Scala projects like ACINQ/eclair (core Lightning implementation) and sttp (HTTP client JSON integrations). His work shows deep familiarity with distributed systems, protocol correctness (fixing channel closures and timestamp handling), and performance-driven refactoring. Before ACINQ he held architecture and CTO roles across fintech and systems companies, grounding his product leadership in rigorous systems engineering. Trained at Supélec in electrical engineering and computer science, he pairs formal technical education with practical cryptocurrency protocol development.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science at Supélec
English, German
Github Skills (10)
http-client10
error-handling10
lightning-network10
scala10
database-management9
akka-http9
code-optimization8
test-automation8
testing8
documentation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ACINQ/eclair
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
A scala implementation of the Lightning Network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1960 reviews, 1075 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pierre-marie implemented bug fixes and improvements to the core functionality of the Lightning Network implementation. They addressed channel closing failures and corrected timestamp handling. Additionally, they worked on improving the internal data structures by refactoring and optimizing the code for performance.
paymentslightningblockchainscalacryptocurrency
softwaremill/sttp
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
The Scala HTTP client you always wanted!
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Pierre-marie primarily focused on integrating and configuring JSON serialization within the sttp library. Their contributions involved updating dependencies for json4s, specifically targeting the core and native implementations, and modifying test configurations to accommodate these changes. They also updated documentation, refining the examples and specifying the use of json4s serialization within the sttp framework. These changes improve the user's ability to handle JSON data within the project.
guzzlefinaglehttpclientfs2zio
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