Didier Wenzek
Lead Principal Software Engineer at Software AG
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDidier Wenzek is a Lead Principal Software Engineer based in Grenoble with over two decades of experience building and leading complex distributed systems, from stream processing and federated databases to electronic medical records and power plant simulators. He blends deep research credentials—a PhD from Grenoble INP and an engineering degree from Centrale Lille—with hands-on product delivery at companies including Software AG, AWS and as founder of a consultancy that incubated a real-time data-processing engine. His technical passion sits at the intersection of functional programming and databases, focusing on functional query languages, query compilation, continuous incremental processing and deterministic transactions. Known for taking on thorny architecture problems, he has repeatedly turned fragile systems into robust, high-performance platforms in both enterprise and research contexts. Less obvious: he pairs theoretical rigor with practical deployments, moving ideas from PhD-level research into production-grade distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Phd Computer science, Phd Computer science at Grenoble INP - UGArmaster degree in engineering, rmaster degree in engineering at Centrale Lille
Github Skills (47)
opam10
iot-device10
kafka10
librdkafka10
package-repository10
ocaml10
iot10
agent10
aws-iot10
lwt8
hivemq8
dbm8
extraction8
pexpect8
asynchronous8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
didier-wenzek/ocaml-kafka
Oct 2014 - Nov 2022
OCaml bindings for Kafka
Contributions:8 releases, 13 reviews, 147 commits in 8 years 1 month
kafkaocamlocaml-bindingslibrdkafka
didier-wenzek/ocaml-kyotocabinet
Apr 2013 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 37 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 8 months
ocaml-bindingsocamlkyotodbmcabinet
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