Serge Farny
Software Engineer
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolSerge Farny is a seasoned software engineer based in Paris with 12 years of experience delivering robust systems in the financial services sector. He blends systems-level expertise with practical cross-platform development, having ported Aeron's media driver to Windows—reworking core C code, threading, timing, and socket abstractions to bridge Unix and Windows APIs. Comfortable across back-end and infrastructure layers, he favors pragmatic refactoring (even removing C++ dependencies) to improve portability and build reliability. Known as a curious "jack of all trades, master of some," he combines deep technical problem solving with a product-minded approach to shipping dependable software. Trained at Université de Technologie de Compiègne, he remains an active open-source contributor who brings low-level networking and performance considerations into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
French, English, Japanese, German
Stackoverflow
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6questions
eclipse-plugin
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Github Skills (24)
multiplatform10
messaging10
wp-api10
cross-platform10
c1110
winapi10
ipc10
c1710
socket10
ws-api10
eclipse-plugin9
multicasting9
multicast9
stream9
eclipse6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aeron-io/aeron
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Serge's contributions focused on porting the media driver of the Aeron messaging system to the Windows API. This involved significant changes to the core C code, adapting socket and file utility functions for Windows, and implementing Windows-specific threading and timing mechanisms. Additionally, the user addressed build issues and refactored the code to remove C++ dependencies, demonstrating a strong understanding of cross-platform development and system-level programming. Furthermore, the user implemented a WSAPoll function to support the poll system call for Windows.
c-plus-plusmessage-transportipcipc-messagemessaging
farnyser/linq-cpp
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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