Romain Rigaux
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRomain Rigaux is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years building data platforms and developer tools, now leading next-generation query and notebook editors at Databricks. He combines deep backend systems expertise—from Hadoop-era integrations at Cloudera and leading the open-source Hue SQL assistant used by thousands—to modern cloud-native editor experiences with intellisense, diagnostics and AI-assisted autocompletion. Comfortable across the full stack, Romain has a strong track record in SQL query tooling, data warehousing, and productionizing developer UX for mixed Python/SQL workflows. His open-source contributions to Hue highlight a pragmatic focus on robustness and maintainability, including parser and auth improvements and Unicode bug fixes. Based in San Francisco with advanced CS training from UTC and Georgia Tech, he’s as much a product-minded leader and team builder as a hands-on engineer who enjoys making data querying smarter and more accessible.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDUT, Computer Science, DUT, Computer Science at UNIVERSITE D'AUVERGNEMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
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Github Skills (34)
python10
hadoop10
sql10
django-urls10
backend10
apache-flink9
apidoc9
django9
flink-sql9
phoenix-framework9
phoenix-liveview9
impala9
apache-phoenix9
api9
hive9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudera/hue
Apr 2012 - Sep 2021
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1083 reviews, 14770 commits in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the back-end functionalities of the Hue project. The commits focus on enhancing existing code, resolving Unicode encoding errors, and refactoring code for better maintainability. Their work includes converting SQL dialects to connector types, updating the parser, and incorporating changes to the user authentication and document handling APIs.
querysql-editormysqlassistantsql
gethue/hue
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 869 pushes in 1 day
querymysqlassistantsqldatabases
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