Xavier Roche
Senior Software Engineer at HTTrack
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolXavier Roche is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of deep systems and low-level engineering experience, currently shaping Algolia’s distributed search engine from Paris. He specializes in C and modern C++ (C++20) across Linux, POSIX, and Windows environments, with a strong focus on performance, stability, and kernel-level perf audits. A long-time open-source maintainer and project leader (notably HTTrack) and Debian developer, he brings rare expertise in distributed storage, networking protocols, and build-system hardening from past roles at Scality and Exalead. Comfortable on-call and in production incident work, he pairs meticulous debugging and crash-audit skills with architectural design. Driven by autonomy and mastery, Xavier favors technically demanding projects where subtle optimizations and rigorous correctness matter.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat série C, Baccalauréat série C at Lycée MalherbeMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Ecole nationale supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen
French, English, Japanese, Russian
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Github Skills (93)
fuse10
modular10
high-performance10
nfs10
storage10
data-exchange10
posix10
cloud-storage10
replication10
keccak10
fat10
android-gui10
javascript9
glusterfs9
openebs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xroche/httrack-android
Jul 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:409 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 4 years 5 months
guiandroidcopierandroid-gui
xroche/httrack
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
HTTrack Website Copier, copy websites to your computer (Official repository)
Contributions:6 reviews, 45 commits, 21 PRs in 22 days
javascriptofflinecopierwebpage
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