Simon Paitrault
AggLayer Team Lead, Staff Software Engineering at Polygon Labs
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolSimon Paitrault is a Staff Software Engineer and technical lead based in Nantes with 11 years of experience building distributed, cloud-native systems and real-time platforms. Currently leading the AggLayer team at Polygon Labs, he brings deep hands-on expertise in Rust, Elixir, Scala and Python alongside practical DevOps skills in Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad and Terraform. He has a track record of shipping microservices, integrating protocols like XMPP and building CI/CD and observability practices at scale. A self-taught polyglot and fast learner, Simon thrives on complex projects and mentoring teams, having moved from agency and freelance roles to senior engineering leadership. Outside core product work he actively contributes to open-source and has a pragmatic history of introducing developer workflows and standards that reduce technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BTS IG Développement d'application et Gestion, BTS IG Développement d'application et Gestion at Lycée de la venise verte
French, English
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Github Skills (200)
vim10
chat10
matrix10
xmpp10
jabber10
compile-time10
messaging10
snapshot-testing10
rust-language10
cqrs10
gulp10
compiler10
brokers10
graph10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
iadvize/ejabberd
Jul 2018 - Jun 2022
Robust, ubiquitous and massively scalable Jabber / XMPP Instant Messaging platform
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 11 months
scalablexmppzulipmessaging-platformmessaging
Freyskeyd/rundeck
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
Rundeck (CLI) is a Command Line Interface which aim to solve a lack of tools to directly interact with a Rundeck instance.
Contributions:3 releases, 23 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 5 months
solveaimcommand-line-interfacerundeckinteract
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