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Mathieu Dutour

@mathieudutour

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Senior backend engineer building high-performance distributed storage and low-latency systems.

Croatia

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What I'm looking for

I want to build and scale high-performance distributed systems—especially storage and low-latency backend infrastructure—working in an async, engineering-focused environment where I can deliver production-grade reliability and performance.

I’m a Senior Backend Engineer (Rust/C++) with 15+ years of experience building high-performance distributed systems. I specialize in storage systems, low-latency infrastructure, scalability, and backend architecture, with a background in compilers and applied mathematics.

I’ve delivered production systems in finance, blockchain, and large-scale data environments—designing a database-agnostic storage layer across RocksDB, DynamoDB, and ScyllaDB, and building core microservices infrastructure (RPC, routing, state sync) for high-availability, fault-tolerant distributed systems. I’m also a core contributor to a production distributed protocol (microchain architecture), and I enjoy solving complex performance problems end-to-end.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

Linera.io

Sep 2022 - May 2026 (3 years 8 months)

Designed a database-agnostic storage layer (RocksDB, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB) enabling flexible deployments across environments. Built core microservices infrastructure for high-availability distributed systems and integrated a WebAssembly runtime for executing user-defined logic; contributed 530+ merged PRs to a production microchain protocol.

Rust Distributed Systems Storage Systems RocksDB DynamoDB RPC WebAssembly Microservices Fault Tolerance

Senior Software Engineer

Arrow Markets

Apr 2022 - Aug 2022 (4 months)

Developed optimized numerical algorithms for financial computations, improving performance of pricing workflows. Implemented calibration and fitting algorithms for volatility surface parameterization.

Python Financial Modeling Calibration Curve Fitting Performance Optimization

Senior Software Engineer

Simplectica

Mar 2021 - Nov 2021 (8 months)

Developed a high-performance, low-latency trading system for Nasdaq/CBOE to handle real-time market data and order execution. Designed multiprocessing architecture using shared memory and lock-free queues, and built a cycle-accurate matching engine simulator for backtesting.

C++Ocaml Python Low Latency Trading Systems Real Time Systems Multithreading Shared Memory Lock Free Queues Simulation

Senior Software Engineer

Bodo.ai

Oct 2019 - Sep 2020 (11 months)

Co-developed a Python-to-native compiler targeting Pandas for high-performance data processing. Implemented C++ backends with MPI-based parallelization and added compiler optimization passes and language features.

C++SQL Python Compiler Pandas MPI Data Processing Compiler Optimization Performance Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Alacris

Dec 2018 - Sep 2019 (9 months)

Built a distributed consensus system using replicated state machines with cryptographic verification. Contributed to a DSL compiler with static analysis to provide correctness guarantees.

Ocaml Rust Haskell Replicated State Machines Cryptography DSL Static Analysis

Scientific Researcher

Rudjer Bošković Institute

Jan 2006 - Nov 2018 (12 years 10 months)

Developed and maintained production numerical simulation systems for ocean and weather forecasting for the Croatian Meteorological Agency. Built data pipelines for satellite, station, and radar measurements at scale and authored a 170K LOC C++ open-source computational geometry library.

Fortran C++Python High Performance Computing Data Pipelines Forecasting Computational Geometry

Remote Developer

Second Bridge

Jun 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 4 months)

Developed algorithms for ranging and position determination across interconnected devices. Designed network protocols and a multithreaded device-to-device communication architecture.

C++Python Java Network Protocols Multithreading