Summary
Yannick Perrenet is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building low-latency, production-grade systems across crypto, cloud SaaS and scientific computing. He co-founded and served as CTO of Orchest, growing an open-source project to 4k+ GitHub stars, raising $4.15M and architecting a highly available SaaS that provisions isolated EC2 and EKS environments. More recently he designed ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and a zk-rollup-based decentralized exchange with millisecond-level acknowledgements, combining Rust, Python, Solidity and GPU-accelerated components. His background in applied mathematics and bridging computer science informs a pragmatic, performance-first approach—evident in kernel- and system-level projects like a POSIX-compliant FUSE filesystem and cgroup/systemd optimizations that boosted performance >60%. Colleagues know him as an engineer who moves fluidly between research-grade models and hardened production systems while keeping a hands-on role in hiring and technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
N&T, N&T at ISW Hoogeland
Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, German