Guillaume Godet-Bar

Senior Software Engineer, 6+ years of Rust experience developing high performance trading systems | PhD in Computer Science

Salary / Daily rate

Aix-en-Provence, France

Mobility: Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, ...

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

BlockchainRustBackend DeveloperTest Driven DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentSoftware CraftsmanshipRedisSQL databasesAWSWeb3Domain Driven DesignElasticsearchKafkaClean ArchitectureLinuxTech LeadClean CodeSQLitePostgreSQLSolutions ArchitectProduct OwnerRabbitMQSoftware Engineer

About me

Intro

What does 15 years of experience in high stakes tech industries bring to the table for your projects? A taste for sober, efficient software architectures, and for solutions that are performant but, more importantly, that are legible and maintainable. As founder of a Rust consulting service company, I am committed to leveraging this expertise to help your team succeed in their current or upcoming projects.

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Work experience

Founder

Sextian Bytes

May 2024 - Present

2 years 6 months

Aix-en-Provence, France

– I provide Rust consultancy services for clients with high performance requirements for their software platform, especially in the crypto space. Latest highlights include work on HyperLiquid from a Rust/Tokio/Clickhouse/OTLM environment to refactor key modules of a client's trading system. – I am also developing internal tools for BTC blockchain analysis and high performance algorithmic cryptocurrency trading.

Senior Software Engineer

Small Private Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund

Jan 2023 - May 2024

1 year 5 months

New York, NY, USA

– Developed an automated market interface validation system, which enabled deploying new market interface connectors in a matter of days instead of weeks – Implemented high-frequency trading market interfaces to major exchanges (Binance, Gate, KuCoin, OKX, Bybit) to extend the reach of the algorithmic trading strategies.

Senior Software Engineer

Large Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund

Mar 2022 - Dec 2022

10 months

New York, NY, USA

– Upgraded the C++ codebase for market data acquisition and order management into a fully high-frequency trading platform, enabling the company to deploy algorithmic trading strategies.

Chief Technology Officer

Lights Of the Century

May 2019 - Jan 2022

2 years 9 months

69340 Francheville, France

– Designed a distributed video projection system, implemented as a parallel & asynchronous Rust system using Tokio & gRPC, integrating NodeJS applications & OpenGL shaders, and a custom UI layout language – Implemented a UI component distribution system using AWS S3 and a Git layer – Implemented a validation and Docker packaging pipeline in GitLab

Magillem Design Services

Mar 2011 - Feb 2019

8 years

Product Owner

Jun 2015 - Feb 2019

3 years 9 months

– Led the technical roadmap of the company's SystemRDL editor and compiler tool, and gathered requirements from customers, securing its worldwide deployment at top names in the industry. – Led an engineering team for the overhaul of the company's core Java architecture – Contributed to the specification and copywriting of the SystemRDL 2.0 Accellera Standard

Research And Development Engineer

Mar 2011 - Jun 2015

4 years 4 months

– Designed, implemented and supported a SystemRDL editor and compiler deployed worldwide at a top semiconductor company and run every day, hundreds of times per day – Designed, implemented, optimized & supported several Java Eclipse-based tools for capturing massive designs from major semiconductor companies

Senior Research Engineer

Laboratoire TIMA / TIMA Laboratory

May 2010 - Mar 2011

11 months

– Developed a model-driven generation workflows of device drivers for embedded multiprocessor platforms, based on the IPXACT formalism (IEEE-1685). This generation workflow was deployed as a collaborative webservice (users are able to upload extensions to the workflow), accessible both from the command line and from a web browser interface. – Developed drivers for DNA-OS (a lightweight, component-based OS targeted at MP-SoC platforms) and of custom platforms for the Rabbits framework (a binary translation system based on QEMU).

Assistant teacher

Université Grenoble Alpes

Oct 2006 - Jun 2009

2 years 9 months


Education

Grenoble INP - UGA

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science

2006 - 2009

3 years 2 months

Thesis Title: "Spécification et outillage d'une méthode de conception des systèmes de réalité mixte" (Specification and Tooling of a Design Process for Mixed Reality Systems), under the supervision of Dominique Rieu and Sophie Dupuy-Chessa

Université Grenoble Alpes

Master, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Architecture, Bayesian Networks

2001 - 2006

5 years 1 month

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