Stéphane Épardaud
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Riviera DEV - Sophia Antipolis - France
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolStéphane Épardaud is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years building backend and full-stack systems, currently leading platform work at Red Hat from the Greater Nice area. He combines deep academic training (Doctorate in Computer Science) with pragmatic open-source impact, contributing significant features to high-profile projects like Quarkus, Hibernate ORM and RESTEasy. His work centers on database query optimization, reactive and asynchronous request handling, and developer experience improvements—evident in Quarkus enhancements for count queries, named projections and Panache integration. He also bridges front-end and documentation needs, having built Quarkus quickstarts and improved the project website UI and content. A long-time community builder, Stéphane co-leads Riviera DEV and Riviera JUG, blending technical leadership with local ecosystem stewardship. Colleagues know him for translating complex middleware and ORM challenges into practical, well-tested solutions that advance developer productivity.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate, Computer science, Doctorate, Computer science at Université Côte d'Azur
Github Skills (36)
asynchronous10
application-framework10
javascript10
object-mapping10
website-development10
async10
rxjavafx10
hibernate-orm10
css10
app-framework10
databases10
rest-services10
java10
webservice10
javas10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
quarkusio/quarkusio.github.io
Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
Website for Quarkus project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 48 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stéphane primarily contributes to the website for the Quarkus project, focusing on front-end and documentation improvements. They updated the extensions list, fixed CSS for code blocks, and added links to relevant topics. Furthermore, the user incorporated new layouts and content for various pages, including FAQ, vision, and community sections. They also implemented UI tweaks and updated the configuration reference.
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quarkusio/quarkus
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:925 reviews, 751 commits, 316 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stéphane was primarily focused on enhancing the Quarkus framework's capabilities related to database queries and related features. Their work included implementing features to optimize count queries, managing the selection of database writers, and supporting named query projections. Their contributions were also focused on enabling new capabilities for developers, specifically regarding the handling of form parameters.
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