Adrien Tétar
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrien Tétar is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently driving platform and feature work at Microsoft from the Greater Seattle Area. He specializes in font tooling and text rendering—an active open-source maintainer on projects like fonttools and FontForge where he has improved pen systems, memory management, and QA for complex font tables. At Microsoft he’s architected shipping systems including Google Cast integrations, purchasing flows, and a language-aware app redesign while evangelizing best practices through talks and docs. His background blends research (GPU text rendering during a master’s thesis) with production engineering, giving him depth in both low-level rendering and large-scale app design. Known for pragmatic code and clear design reviews, he also contributes front-end polish and accessibility improvements across websites and documentation. An unusual strength is his sustained niche expertise in type technology—developing font tools since 2014—that informs more robust internationalization and typography in products.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Advanced Mathematics, Physics, Industrial Engineering, Advanced Mathematics, Physics, Industrial Engineering at Buffon High School, Paris, FranceEngineer's degree (MSc), Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree (MSc), Computer Engineering at ESIEE PARIS
Github Skills (26)
fonts10
qt10
bootstrap10
python10
testing10
css10
memory-management10
responsive-design10
c1110
c1710
fileio10
file-handling10
html10
file-processing10
bootstra10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
fontforge/designwithfontforge.com
May 2014 - Jul 2015
A book about how to design new typefaces with FontForge
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Adrien primarily focused on front-end development, making significant style and layout changes. They addressed readability issues by modifying fonts, colors, and spacing within the stylesheet. Furthermore, the user updated the `html-start.html` file, enhancing the appearance and usability of the website. They also made minor text fixes and compression optimizations.
fontforgefonts
fontforge/fontforge
May 2014 - Sep 2016
Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:289 commits, 87 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adrien primarily contributed to the FontForge project by fixing memory leaks in various parts of the codebase. Their work involved identifying and correcting instances where memory was not properly freed after use, specifically in functions related to file I/O, user interface elements, and data structures. This included fixing memory leaks in the glyph loading and saving processes, along with optimizations for core font-handling functionalities. The user's contributions improved the stability and memory management of the FontForge application.
font-editormacoswindows
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