Adrien Rey-jarthon
Founder at updown.io
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrien Rey-jarthon is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable web services and SaaS products from Paris. He founded and runs updown.io, a pragmatic web-monitoring service, and previously led architecture and development for a Ruby on Rails-based social CRM at RingCentral Engage Digital. Deeply rooted in Ruby and Rails, he also brings strong systems-level skills across networking, Unix, MongoDB and front-end technologies, allowing him to bridge infra and product needs. Adrien is an active OSS contributor to prominent projects like the Typhoeus HTTP wrapper and the official MongoDB Ruby driver, where his work improved header parsing, error handling and thread safety—practical fixes that reduce production incidents. Early quantitative trading and expert-system internships sharpened his mathematical rigor and focus on robust tooling. He combines entrepreneurial drive with hands-on backend craftsmanship, often tackling subtle reliability issues most engineers miss.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBac scientifique Mention Bien, Option Sciences de l'Ingénieur et Mathématiques, Bac scientifique Mention Bien, Option Sciences de l'Ingénieur et Mathématiques at Lycée les Iris
English
Stackoverflow
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39answers
4questions
Github Skills (24)
headers10
nosql10
apidoc10
youtube-api10
testing10
rspec10
http10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
mongodb-driver10
api10
parsing10
parse10
xml-parsing10
error-handling10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
typhoeus/typhoeus
Feb 2015 - May 2022
Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adrien primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `typhoeus/typhoeus` repository, focusing on adding features and addressing header parsing related issues. Their work included adding getter methods for response attributes like `redirect_time` and `redirect_url`. The user also implemented experimental support for multi-line headers and improved error handling for broken headers. They made changes to the core header processing and information gathering components.
libcurltyphoeus
kylejginavan/youtube_it
May 2012 - Jun 2012
An object-oriented Ruby wrapper for the YouTube GData API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrien primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the YouTube API wrapper. Their commits focused on adding features such as reply comments and comment deletion, improving testing robustness, and enhancing test coverage. They also improved the parsing of API responses and introduced Nokogiri for XML parsing to improve performance. These changes directly enhanced the library's capabilities and stability.
gdataruby-wrapperyoutube
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