Pior Bastida
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Montpellier, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolPior Bastida is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems, currently shaping Shopify’s email platform and reputation systems. Trained as an electronic engineer in France, he moved from embedded Linux and driver work to system administration, DevOps, data engineering, and platform architecture, giving him an uncommon end-to-end perspective from hardware to distributed services. He has led large migrations (thousands of CI agents to Kubernetes), designed ETL and realtime pipelines with Spark and Pub/Sub, and operated backend infrastructure supporting hundreds of thousands of daily users. Expert in AWS, Kubernetes, observability stacks and backend services (Go/Python/Java), he emphasizes automation, reproducibility and industry best practices across development and operations. An active open-source contributor, he improved reliability and performance in notable projects like the Go distributed task queue asynq, demonstrating practical low-level and systems thinking. Based in Montpellier, he pairs deep technical curiosity with pragmatic delivery on high-impact production systems.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electronic and Computer science, Master’s Degree, Electronic and Computer science at Polytech SorbonneAssociate’s Degree, Electronic / Computer science, Associate’s Degree, Electronic / Computer science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
English, French
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Github Skills (6)
task-queue10
asynchronous-tasks10
go10
redis10
backend9
golangci-lint9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hibiken/asynq
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 14 PRs, 34 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pior primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `asynq` task queue. They implemented features such as adding jitter to the processor's backoff sleep, bumped the Go version, and ensured proper context cancellation. Furthermore, the user improved performance by adding an in-memory cache for enqueue operations and addressed linting issues. They also updated the tests to use the configured Redis address and switched to using the `math/rand/v2` package.
golangdistributedworker-poolredisbackground-jobs
ludia/dogpile_elasticache
Apr 2016 - Jul 2020
Dogpile backend for AWS Elasticache Memcache. (pymemcache and auto-discovery)
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 years 3 months
dogpilememcacheelasticachediscoverybackend
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