Pierre Villard
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolPierre Villard is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 10 years of experience building scalable data-in-motion systems and cloud-native integrations. Currently at Snowflake after Datavolo's acquisition, he focuses on extending and hardening Apache NiFi—where he is a Committer and PMC member—improving reliability, logging, and encoding support for mission-critical data flows. His background spans product leadership at Cloudera and hands-on customer engineering at Google, giving him a rare mix of technical craftsmanship and customer-facing product sense. Pierre frequently speaks at conferences on topics like NiFi architectures, logging modernization, and edge data processing, and his contributions to the flagship apache/nifi repo demonstrate a pragmatic focus on robustness and observability.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MPSI/MP* Info, MPSI/MP* Info at Lycée Pierre CorneilleProgramme court ingénierie Computer Science, Programme court ingénierie Computer Science at Polytechnique MontréalBAC S, BAC S at Lycée La ProvidenceDiplôme d'ingénieur en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées Mathematics and Computer Science, Diplôme d'ingénieur en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées Mathematics and Computer Science at ENSEEIHT - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications
French, English
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
debugging10
debug10
logging10
apache-nifi10
java10
maven9
hadoop8
xml7
minio6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nifi
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:883 reviews, 365 commits, 648 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily worked on improving the Apache NiFi data flow automation platform, fixing error messages and enhancing logging functionalities within the codebase. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to disabled ports, fixing exception handling in multiple processors, and preventing the deletion of connections in active processors. Additionally, the user implemented features such as supporting UTF-8 encoding for FTP processors, and addressed reported bugs.
javanifiapacheapache-nifi
pvillard31/kafka-ssl-principal-builder
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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