Pierre-olivier Simonard
Engineering Manager at IOAPPS
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolPierre-Olivier Simonard is an Engineering Manager and seasoned DevOps/Data Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building automation, data pipelines and cloud-native tooling while consulting for large French enterprises. He combines deep Python and SQL expertise with UNIX, Docker and systems design, and has taught Python and databases at the University of Strasbourg, blending practical consulting with academic rigour. A former iOS engineer and open-source contributor, he created well-adopted components like GrabKit and contributed Python bindings and core improvements to the Rust CRDT y-crdt project, showing fluency across languages and runtime boundaries. Based in Strasbourg, he founded his own company in 2017 and moves fluidly between contractor roles and engineering leadership, often surfacing low-friction automation that accelerates teams.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
3rd year Web Development, 3rd year Web Development at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
French, Swedish, German, English
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Github Skills (17)
python10
crdt10
binding10
rust10
bind10
apidoc9
api9
data-structures8
data-structure8
facebook-ios-sdk6
storyboard6
uitableview6
gdata6
single-sign-on6
facebook6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
y-crdt/y-crdt
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Rust port of Yjs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Pierre-olivier primarily contributed to the Rust port of Yjs, focusing on the implementation and enhancement of core functionalities within the `yrs-python` module. They developed Python bindings for the Rust library, enabling its use through Python. The user added sample code to demonstrate the usage of the created Python bindings and integrated changes from the main branch, improving the underlying CRDT implementation. They also modified core data structures and the transaction system.
crdtrustyjs
pierrotsmnrd/grabKit
Jul 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:82 commits in 1 year 4 months
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