Vincent Durmont
Co-Founder Software Engineer at Guild.ai
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolVincent Durmont is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 13 years building scalable backend systems and developer tooling, now based in Los Angeles. He co-founded Guild.ai to make building with AI open and collaborative after leadership roles at Lightspark and multiple engineering positions at Facebook focused on payments, blockchain, and internal tooling. Vincent brings deep Java and systems experience—evident from his long-running open-source work on emoji-java, where he implemented parsing, HTML representations and Fitzpatrick modifier support. He has a strong track record of shipping production-grade services and shaping engineering culture across startups and large tech, from microservices and devops to testing and performance optimization. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and team leadership, he repeatedly bridges product and technical strategy to deliver reliable, mission-driven platforms. Trained as an engineer at INSA Rouen, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic focus on craftsmanship and scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
lycee jean monnetMaster of Science (Diplôme d'ingénieur), Computer Science, Master of Science (Diplôme d'ingénieur), Computer Science at INSA Rouen Normandie
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
strings10
text-manipulation10
object-oriented-programming10
data-parsing10
java10
javas10
api-design9
unit-test8
junit8
json8
html6
unicode6
geolocation6
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vdurmont/emoji-java
Aug 2014 - Nov 2019
The missing emoji library for Java :heart:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 144 commits, 36 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the "emoji-java" library by adding and modifying core functionalities. They implemented and integrated features like the addition of HTML representations for emojis and the parsing logic for these representations. Furthermore, they added support for Fitzpatrick modifiers, which involved modifying the parsing methods to correctly handle these modifiers. The user also updated the emoji database and implemented methods to remove/filter emojis from strings.
javaemojiheartmissing
vdurmont/elapsedtime
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Java library which generates a string representation of an elapsed time. (e.g.: "2 hours ago").
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 7 months
representationstringjava-libraryelapsed-timeelapsed
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