Vianney Rancurel
Member Of Technical Staff at Magic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVianney Rancurel is a seasoned systems architect and engineer with 15 years designing and shipping large-scale distributed storage, consensus and secure computing solutions. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Magic and formerly a Principal Software Engineer at Intel, he has led teams building privacy-preserving federated learning platforms with Intel SGX and high-performance SDKs for distributed key-value stores backed by BFT ledgers. His decade-plus tenure at Scality includes architecting petabyte-scale S3-compatible object storage and implementing Raft-based metadata layers, complemented by research-driven innovations in erasure coding and storage protocols. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed backend features and performance tooling to the well-known Zenko CloudServer S3 implementation. Vianney combines hands-on C++/Go/Node.js engineering with strategic cross-team leadership, mentorship, and a focus on cryptographic verifiability and resilient, software-defined infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and results-oriented, often bridging cutting-edge research with production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Systems and Networks, Computer Engineering Systems and Networks at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
English, French
Github Skills (11)
aws-s310
javascript10
object-storage10
nodejs10
backend10
back-end-development10
cloud-storage9
testing8
cloud-computing7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scality/cloudserver
Sep 2015 - Feb 2022
Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 51 commits, 33 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vianney primarily focused on implementing backend functionality for the Zenko CloudServer project. Their contributions include initial development of a bucket API with associated unit tests, adding a bucketfile backend, and fixing versioning issues. They also added a performance testing tool, s3blaster, based on aws-sdk and implemented a workflow engine operator proxy.
zenkostorageawsfront-endmultiple-clouds
scality/Droplet-sh
Sep 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year
linuxcloudcloud-storagestoragecommand-line
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