Thomas Conté
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolThomas Conté is a Principal Software Engineer based in Paris with 15+ years designing and shipping large-scale cloud and data systems at Microsoft, from bootstrapping Azure ecosystems to building production data ingestion and RAG pipelines for AI workloads. He blends deep systems and architecture experience—spanning blockchain backend work on BigchainDB and Azure DevOps automation—with practical security and performance improvements such as hardened MongoDB connections and optimized provisioning scripts. A pragmatic technical leader, he has repeatedly moved projects from prototype to global delivery (including Olympic-scale web operations) and mentors teams on reliability, scalability and integration across cloud, geo-spatial and video AI domains. Known for shipping robust, production-ready solutions, he pairs a veteran engineering mindset with an appetite for elegant automation and open-source collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc. Computer Science, M. Sc. Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
English, French
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Github Skills (33)
bicep10
python10
scripting10
databases10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
mongodb-database10
ubuntu10
arm-templates10
blockchain10
azure10
mongodb10
database10
azure-table-storage9
azure-storage9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
May 2015 - Jan 2018
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas made several contributions related to infrastructure and system configuration within the Azure quickstart templates. They updated scripts to improve performance, specifically modifying disk utility scripts to include the `-E nodiscard` option. Additionally, they addressed issues with `mdadm` installation, removing unnecessary `sudo` calls to ensure proper environment variable propagation in Ubuntu 14.04. Furthermore, the user incorporated blockchain-related scripts and dependencies for BigChainDB, showcasing an interest in containerizing and automating development environments.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
bigchaindb/bigchaindb
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Meet BigchainDB. The blockchain database.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the backend of the BigchainDB project by implementing and refactoring database connection features. They introduced SSL and authentication support for MongoDB connections, enhancing security. The user also fixed unit tests related to database initialization and configuration, ensuring the reliability of the system. Their work involved modifying backend connection logic and database-specific implementations.
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