Sebastien Merle
Software Engineer at Distavency S.L.
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastien Merle is a seasoned software engineer with 19 years of experience building high‑availability, massively concurrent networking services and distributed systems from Barcelona. He has led performance and resilience work across domains—from scaling ejabberd to support millions of concurrent users at Tuenti to optimizing real‑time healthcare messaging and streaming platforms. A pragmatic problem solver with strong attention to detail, he combines backend and DevOps skills to reliably ship production systems and has contributed system tests and node/container fixes to the æternity blockchain project. As owner of Distavency and a long‑standing senior engineer at companies like Silent Circle and Flumotion, he blends hands‑on implementation with architectural thinking. Notably, his background includes creating distributed testing and transcoding infrastructures that handled multi‑GBit live streams, revealing a talent for engineering at extreme scale.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Ecole pour I'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
docker10
system-testing10
erlang10
dockers10
blockchain9
devops9
cicd8
cryptography7
testing7
test-framework7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aeternity/aeternity
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
æternity blockchain - scalable blockchain for the people - smart contracts, state channels, names, tokens
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:40 commits, 63 PRs, 137 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sebastien primarily focused on enhancing the system tests for the æternity blockchain project. Their contributions involved adding system tests with a Docker backend, including modifications to Erlang files and adjustments to the testing environment. They also addressed and fixed several issues related to node stopping and container management within the system tests, as well as implemented and refactored code to resolve network connectivity problems.
tokensethereumchannelserlangscaling
sylane/erlib
Dec 2009 - Jan 2012
Contributions:37 commits in 2 years 2 months
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