Jacques Rimbault

R&D Engineer - Backend, Platform & Embedded CI | ProvenRun

Mar 2024 - Present | Paris, France

• Designed, built, and operate Board on Demand, a shared remote lab giving engineers and CI pipelines on-demand access to embedded targets without physical handling.
• Built its Rust backend and command-line clients: SQLite-backed scheduling, REST/OpenAPI interfaces, SSH key lifecycle and API-key authentication, and event-sourced booking history.
• Authored the company's Rust and Python engineering guidelines, covering code safety and quality, reproducible toolchains, packaging, typing, testing, and CI.
• Automated the physical layer behind a single command line: networked power distribution units, SD-card multiplexers, serial consoles, and image delivery over SFTP.
• Enabled GitLab pipelines to book, flash, and release real hardware unattended, with automatic booking extension, timeout power-off, cleanup, and notifications.
• Supplemented the command-line workflows with a web frontend for lab status, live board views, and user administration.
• Protect releases with broad Rust unit and integration test coverage, plus a black-box suite that exercises the shipped binaries.
• Own release and supply-chain engineering for the platform: license and SBOM checks, vulnerability scanning, glibc-compatibility verification, generated changelogs, and published mdbook documentation.
• Operate isolated lab services including Docker runners, proxying, DHCP/DNS/NTP, camera streaming, and Yocto/Buildroot/Pytest build and test workflows.

Technologies: Rust, Python, TypeScript, Actix Web, SQLite, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Linux, Yocto, Buildroot, Pytest, Vite, Hardware-in-the-Loop, Developer Tooling, OpenAPI, SSH, Networking, Supply-Chain Security, Observability

Software Engineer (Consultant) | ORNESS

Feb 2021 - Feb 2024 | Paris, France

• For Société Générale SGCIB, developed internal cloud APIs enabling engineering teams to operate private-cloud infrastructure.
• Improved critical unit-test coverage and produced user documentation and technical support for internal users.
• For Engie, built tooling for network and security administrators, including firewall-log filtering and streamlined firewall-rule management.

Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Web Components, AWS Lambda, Jenkins, GitHub, Jira, Cloud APIs, Security Tooling

Software Engineer | Société Générale SGCIB

Sep 2018 - Dec 2019 | Paris, France

• Profiled and optimized the Liqor financial software, reducing its memory footprint by 32 GB through targeted CPU and memory analysis.
• Built internal OWIN HTTP and SignalR WebSocket APIs for monitoring and controlled dataset execution.
• Redesigned continuous-integration scripts to shorten commit-to-feedback time.

Technologies: C#, .NET, .NET Core, TypeScript, Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, TeamCity, Performance Profiling, SignalR, OWIN

Software Engineer | Ministère de l'Intérieur

Jul 2016 - Jun 2018 | France

• Cut the application's codebase in half while introducing Composer/PSR-4 dependency management and modularizing vendored libraries into git submodules.
• Found and fixed a client-side password-hashing vulnerability; led the migration off deprecated MySQL APIs and PHP 5.4.
• Deployed internal GitLab and Jenkins, introduced unit and integration testing and Git workflow standards, and mentored an apprentice developer.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, GitLab, Jenkins, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Mentoring

YADF - Yet Another Dupes Finder github.com/jRimbault/yadf

Creator and maintainer of a high-performance duplicate-file finder for modern SSD-based systems, built in Rust.

• Designed around parallel filesystem traversal, cache-aware data structures, and multiple non-cryptographic hashing algorithms.
• Published reproducible benchmark scripts comparing warm- and cold-cache performance against established tools.

Selected Open-Source Contributions

Contributions across the Rust, Python CLI, Fedora CoreOS, and Online-Go ecosystems.

• Fedora CoreOS openssh-keys: preserved SSH public-key comments and added no_std support.
• Tyro: added a reusable Verbosity type for mutually exclusive -v/-q count flags and Python logging-level mapping.
• Starship: improved startup performance, avoided double compilation, and fixed shell-aware parsing of editor commands and arguments.
• Sysinfo: improved storage-device naming.
• Textwrap: ported Python-compatible unit tests and fixed indentation to preserve existing newlines.
• Bytesize: implemented FromStr for human-readable byte sizes, enabling direct use in Rust CLI parsers.
• Highway-rs: implemented the standard Hasher and Write traits for HighwayHash implementations without changing the public API.
• xh: eliminated repeated request-item regular-expression compilation.
• rand_regex: added a CLI example and parallel, stable, and minimum-supported-Rust-version CI coverage.
• Goyave: parallelized independent continuous-integration jobs.
• fclones: simplified path conversions by removing redundant implementations.
• Online-Go.com: persisted analysis variations locally so game reviews survive reconnects.