Raphaël Barrois
VP Of Engineering at Polytechnique.org
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphaël Barrois is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years' experience designing and delivering reliable, secure web and distributed systems, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Spacivox in Paris. He combines hands-on architecture and systems expertise—spanning embedded devices, high-availability infrastructure and banking—with a strong emphasis on balancing agility and engineering practices to match business needs. His background includes senior technical and CTO roles at PayLead and CANAL+, plus long-standing operational leadership for École Polytechnique alumni services, demonstrating both product-focused delivery and long-term service stewardship. An early SRE intern at Google and contributor to open-source tooling such as improvements to the popular Python test fixtures library factory_boy, he brings practical test automation and developer-experience sensibilities to team growth and platform reliability. He holds engineering degrees from École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris with a specialization in IT security, a foundation that informs his pragmatic approach to secure, scalable systems.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'Ingénieur (eq. M.Sc), Computer Science, Diplôme d'Ingénieur (eq. M.Sc), Computer Science at École PolytechniqueDiplôme d'ingénieur (eq. M.Sc), Computer Science, IT security, Diplôme d'ingénieur (eq. M.Sc), Computer Science, IT security at Télécom Paris
French, English, German, Italian
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
python10
documentation10
testing10
refactor9
refactoring9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FactoryBoy/factory_boy
Feb 2013 - Sep 2022
A test fixtures replacement for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 431 commits, 151 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Raphaël primarily contributed to improving the factory_boy library by adding new features, fixing bugs, and refactoring the code. The user implemented tests for dual class/factory inheritance, rewritten the documentation for features in detail and the changelog. The user also improved code coverage, updated code style, and enhanced declarations for improved efficiency. The user was involved in implementing tests and addressing deprecation warnings.
pythonfixtures-replacementsqlalchemyfactorydjango
rbarrois/mpdlcd
Jan 2012 - Jan 2020
Contributions:160 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 8 years 2 months
statusmpd
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