Yves Le Maout
Founding Engineer at MotherDuck
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYves Le Maout is a founding engineer and seasoned full-stack systems developer with 11 years of experience building high-performance services, cloud-native deployments, and data-intensive platforms from New York. He blends deep C/C++ expertise with modern Node.js, Python, and containerized Kubernetes/AWS deployments, having led engineering as CTO at STOIC and helped scale products at MotherDuck. Yves has a strong track record in low-latency financial systems and risk engines—optimizing Monte Carlo VAR pipelines and reclaiming large performance wins—combined with hands-on DevOps and CI/CD practices. As an active contributor to DuckDB and its WebAssembly port, he has improved serialization, Arrow integration, and cross-platform crypto linking, showing a knack for bridging database internals and web runtimes. Educated in computer science and financial risk, he pairs rigorous numerical thinking with pragmatic engineering and a marathoner’s persistence. Colleagues rely on him for complex debugging, system hardening, and pragmatic design choices that accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 - Financial and Economics Risks Finance & Economics, Master 2 - Financial and Economics Risks Finance & Economics at Université Montesquieu Bordeaux 4Master of Science (MSc) Computer sciences, Master of Science (MSc) Computer sciences at ENSEIRB-MATMECAClasses préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles Mathematics and Physics, Classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Aux Lazaristes
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Github Skills (33)
c-language10
databases10
data-serialization10
arrow-keys10
analytics10
serialization10
duckdb10
sql10
webassembly10
embedded-database10
cprogramming-language10
arrows10
database10
arrow-js10
admin9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
duckdb/duckdb
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 39 commits, 15 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yves primarily worked on improving the serialization and deserialization processes for the DuckDB analytical database. Their contributions involved fixing serialization issues within the `LogicalComparisonJoin` and `BoundComparisonExpression` components. They also implemented the initial serialization for `logical_create_table` and made related improvements to `BoundCreateTableInfo`. Furthermore, the user made changes to support serialization and deserialization for various operators.
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duckdb/duckdb-wasm
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
WebAssembly version of DuckDB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 17 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yves primarily contributed to the core logic of the DuckDB-Wasm project, with a focus on improving its integration with the Arrow format. They fixed arrow imports, made temporary fixes for JSON data views, updated the code to align with the latest DuckDB API, and updated tests for newer DuckDB versions. They also contributed to linking with Mbed TLS.
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