Vincent Boisard
Director Of Engineering at Catawiki
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Boisard is a Director of Engineering based in Bordeaux with 14 years of hands-on backend experience, currently leading engineering at Catawiki after progressing from backend engineer to engineering manager and now director. He specializes in building reliable server-side systems and has a track record of mentoring teams, improving delivery, and driving technical strategy in marketplace and e-commerce contexts. A pragmatic engineer at heart, Vincent continues to contribute code-level improvements—evidenced by his work on HTTP authentication middleware for a well-known EventMachine Ruby client—so he combines leadership with deep familiarity of protocol-level details. Educated in computing and entrepreneurship at EPITECH and the University of Kent, he brings both technical rigor and product awareness to scaling engineering organizations. Colleagues describe him as a steady executor who closes the loop between architecture, team growth, and production reliability.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechMaster Computing and Entrepreneurship, Master Computing and Entrepreneurship at University of Kent
Github Skills (6)
http-authentication10
eventmachine10
middleware10
ruby10
web-development9
rspec8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
igrigorik/em-http-request
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Asynchronous HTTP Client (EventMachine + Ruby)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to implementing and refactoring authentication middleware for the EventMachine HTTP request library. Their work focused on supporting HTTP digest authentication, including parsing headers, generating authorization digests, and handling nonces. The user also added example files to demonstrate how to use the digest authentication feature and wrote basic specifications for testing the new functionality. They reworked the header parsing, made improvements to the code, and switched to using EventMachine::HttpEncoding.
asynchronoushttp-clientrubyasyncio-uring
elhu/beat-patterns
Nov 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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