Tristan Darricau is a Staff Engineer based in Paris with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems and microservice architectures. He has led critical platform work at JobTeaser and Synthesio—managing hundreds of Go services, major Elasticsearch upgrades across 300+ nodes, high-throughput document processing pipelines, and live migrations of multi-billion-row MySQL tables. A pragmatic maintainer and code reviewer, he contributes to long-lived open-source projects like phpBB, focusing on stability, bug fixes and sensible error handling. Tristan pairs deep systems experience (Kafka, ScyllaDB, Prometheus, Consul) with operational craftsmanship—building observability, deployment automation and internal proxies to secure and scale APIs.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur en Informatique, Informatique, Ingénieur en Informatique, Informatique at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble / ENSIMAG
DUT Informatique, Informatique, DUT Informatique, Informatique at IUT de Blagnac
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:30 reviews, 1751 commits, 627 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tristan's commits primarily involve merging branches and incorporating changes related to bug fixes and improvements in the phpBB core. They focused on fixing language variable issues and also on sending appropriate HTTP 403 errors in the code. Additionally, their work included implementing changes to the ACP and handling other functionalities, suggesting a focus on maintaining the system's stability and functionality. The commits also include some maintenance-related tasks.
Contributions:9 releases, 26 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
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