Summary
Stuart Pook is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, from bare-metal datacenters to cloud infrastructure. He designed and ran clusters delivering hundreds of petabytes and orchestrating ~200,000 jobs per day, and later maintained high-throughput image transformation and serving pipelines handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second. His skill set spans low-level systems, storage and big data (Hadoop/Spark), backend services in Scala/Java/C++, and front-end enhancements in JavaScript/TypeScript/C#, reflecting a rare full-stack fluency. Stuart combines deep operational experience—on-call incident debugging, Kerberos, hardware/RAID issues and Terraform/AWS infrastructure—with pragmatic engineering like optimizing Spark jobs and distributed caches. At home he practices what he builds professionally, running personal cloud services and multi-node Home Assistant automation via Docker and MQTT, showing an engineer who continuously experiments across infrastructure, services and user-facing tools.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Doctor of the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Information Technology, PhD, Doctor of the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Information Technology, PhD at Telecom ParisTech
English, French