Late Co-Founder & Compiler Engineer at Wasmer
The most popular open-source WebAssembly runtime
I've joined Wasmer few weeks after the creation of the company. At the time of my departure, Wasmer became one of the most popular WebAssembly runtime in the world, with 17'000 stars on the Github organisation, with users like Confio, Fluence Labs, HOT-G, Brave, Google, Apple, SpaceMesh, Linkerd, SingleStore, Clever Cloud, Kong to name a few.
My engineering job mostly happened on the Wasmer runtime itself, which includes the API, the C API, the compilers, the ABI (mostly WASI), the engines, the middlewares, and the VM. At that time, I was the #2 contributor on this codebase. I also have participated to set up a “learning environment” with a polished collection of examples, a polished documentation etc. In addition to the runtime, I have created all the official embeddings, i.e. extensions to use Wasmer inside other technologies.
In early 2021, I became late co-founder, then doing all the corresponding tasks like accountabilities, hiring interviews, management meetings, operation meetings etc.
Wasmer runtime:
- Work on improving and developing the most popular open-source WebAssembly runtime, every part of it,
- The runtime is mainly composed of:
- 3 compilers: Singlepass, Cranelift, and LLVM,
- 3 engines: JIT, shared object file, static object file,
- the VM core,
- a high-level public API,
- a C and C++ API.
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wasmer
Wasmer embeddings:
- I've embedded Wasmer in various popular languages through native extensions, packages etc. Almost all of the following projects have reached the status of “the most popular project” to run WebAssembly for each language,
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wasmer-c-api🐍
wasmer-python🐹
wasmer-go🐘
wasmer-php💎
wasmer-ruby☕
wasmer-java💽
wasmer-postgres
Wasmer in more exotic places:
- Develop a unikernel to run WebAssembly with Wasmer,
- Experiment with a real-time OS to run WebAssembly modules on microcontrollers.
See all my open-source contributions. Learn more by reading my article about my departure of Wasmer.
Code Wrangler at Automattic
We are passionate about making the web a better place
I have joined the Payment team:
- Develop, test, and maintain the payment, subscription, renewal, and billing engine for all Automattic' services (WordPress.com, Akismet, VaultPress, Crowdsignal etc.),
- Develop a custom Apple Pay implementation from scratch for WordPress.com, today running in production,
- Set up documentation-testing for many code bases,
- Develop and maintain several internal tools.
Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor 
- Create a parser for Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor, in Rust and compile it to many targets (WebAssembly, NodeJS, PHP extension, C).
Engineer at Liip
We consult, design, develop, follow-up
Work mostly for one customer, Piaget.com, a multi-national e-commerce application:
- 16 domains, 10 languages, 2 data centers,
- Implement multi-lingual search with Solr,
- Implement new payment service providers world-wide,
- Test the accessibility and the conformity against the standards.
Create The Accessibility Machine:
- An automated accessibility testing tool which crawls and tests pages of any Web application to produce detailed reports,
- Combines different technologies together.
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the-a11y-machine
Engineer at fruux
Sync contacts, calendars & tasks, powers millions of users
world-wide
Work mainly on Sabre, the open source CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV server:
- sabre.io, maintain and develop new
features in all
sabre/davlibraries (implementing new standards, better tests etc.), - New product: sabre/katana, a CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV ready-to-use server,
- fruux.com, help to maintain and develop new features on the WebApp,
- Contribute to RFC by providing test suites and reporting errors,
- Work with an international team (3 countries, 2 timezones, everything in English, regular meetings once a week…).
Intern at Mozilla Foundation
Building a better Internet, promote openness, innovation & opportunity
Worked under the authority of Paul Rouget, during 6 months:
- Implementation of HTML5 in Gecko,
- Experimental project about the “find” feature of Firefox in Mozilla Labs,
- Worked with an international team (documentation, video, help…),
- Promotion of Mozilla in different events.
Since this internship: Many bug reports, hacks and little projects during my spare time.
Hoa
A modular, extensible and structured set of PHP libraries; aims at
being a bridge between industrial and research worlds
Creator and lead developer of the Hoa project:
- Initial idea: Learn, hack and contribute to a lot of different domains,
- Community of 20 permanent contributors,
- Large community of more than 2200 persons,
- Important users, whose Mozilla, fruux, ownCloud,
- International non-profit foundation,
- Several events (including community ones) in different countries,
- An actual bridge between the industrial and research worlds,
- Reached 120 millions installations in September 2021.
The project has been archived in 2021.