# Henri Maxime Demoulin > Founding Engineer @ DBOS | Follow for posts on reliability, distributed systems & agentic workflows. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/henrimaximedemoulin Founding engineer at DBOS, the easiest to use, state-of-the art Durable Workflows platform. Transform your app into an invincible program here: https://docs.dbos.dev/ I help you build reliable systems. The short life story I have been doing Computer Science since age 18. Here's my journey: - Age 17-22: IT school in France with 10+ internships, realized I enjoyed startups - Age 22-24: Work for a French startup, realize I enjoy Computer Science Research - Age 25-27: Move to the US and starts Duke CS Masters program - Age 27-32: Transition to UPenn Ph.D program - Age 33-35: Defend thesis. First stint at a series C startup (Astronomer, Apache Airflow) - Age 35: Get introduced to Mike Stonebraker and the team at DBOS. Join as founding engineer. Fast forward to now: with the DBOS team, now 10+ strong, I build a leading workflow orchestration solution based on Postgres. Fast-paced environment with a growing customer base. If you're here to make your applications reliable, just shoot me a DM. If you're not there yet, I share for free my insights on computer systems and computer science research. Ready to build? Get started at https://github.com/dbos-inc ## Work Experience ### Founding engineer @ DBOS, Inc. Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States First employee of a team rooted in science and hardened by expertise. Some key contributions: - Design & implementation of DBOS Cloud, a serverless platform for durable workflows - DBOS Transact Golang: https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-go - Observability in DBOS Transact - Found the first customer Check out our open source frameworks https://github.com/dbos-inc/ ### Senior Software Engineer @ Astronomer Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States Designed & implemented several components of Astro, a managed service for Apache Airflow: - Airflow clusters configuration service - Astro on GCP & Azure ### Research Assistant (Ph.D.) @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Philadelphia Advised by prof. Boon Thau Loo and prof. Linh T.X. Phan. Member of the Distributed System Laboratory (http://dsl.cis.upenn.edu/). Notable papers: - Perséphone (kernel bypass scheduling), SOSP'21 - Finelame (first inline eBPF ML anomaly detector), ATC'19 Ph.D. Thesis: Service Boosters: Library Operating Systems for the Datacenter ### Research Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | MSR Redmond Demikernel paper (SOSP'21) ### Research Intern @ Perspecta Labs Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Basking Ridge DCOMP: DARPA Dispersed Computing. ### Research Assistant @ Duke University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 I'm working on projects aiming to enhance the configuration and management of data intensive frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop. My work is supported by prof. Benjamin C. Lee. ### Teaching Assistant @ Duke University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Part time TA for CPS 92 - "Information and the Internet"​ Spring 2015 with Prof. Owen Astrachan TA for CPS 512 - "​ Distributed Information Systems" Fall 2015 with Prof. Jeff Chase TA for CPS 310 - " Operating Systems" Spring 2016 with Prof. Jeff Chase ### Quality Control Director @ Skopeo Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Paris/Tunis As Skopéo was launching it's activies in Tunisia, I: - Factored the software development process - Studied and implemented the technical infrastructure - Set up the software commonly used in a development startup (git, mantis, doku, etc) - Worked on various module integration on www.soukexpert.com - Assisted the Tunisian team in their kickstart - Interviewed candidates for various positions (project managers, engineers, team leaders) ### R&D Engineer @ Hedera Technology Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Kanopya is a Cloud Automation software solution designed to manage and optimize clusterized IT infrastructures. We do asbtract the underlaying virtualization technologies to provide admin users pools of resources dynamically extendable. Kanopya is built on a very smart software architecture, that allows fast integration with many external key software (OpenNebula, OpenStack, vSphere and others) or hardware vendors (NetApp, Cisco UCS and others). It is also shipping a rule engine that allows administrators to automate their cloud scalability at need, and thus to answer rapidly to new requirements. After having conclude a successful development period over the rule engine for our first client release, whom is a big actor in the French TELCO landscape, I've officially joined the integration team, where my job consist in the development of specific components used to manage underlaying technologies. More specifically, I've been studying and integrating vSphere and OpenStack in Kanopya, among various core developments. Kanopya is developed in Perl, provides a REST API, and is functionnal on several Linux distributions (SLES, CentOS, Debian, and others) kanopya.org hederatech.com ### Quality Control Engineer @ Bysoft China Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Affected to the e-commerce department, I'm in charge, with my associates of the QC team, of the controlling of the whole projects development process, from the moment where we receive project's description to it's release. In contact with team leaders, developers, and project managers, we ensure the good communication between those actors and make it possible to deliver fine quality products for an acceptable cost, while allowing regular quality enhancement. ### Member of the linux laboratory @ SUPINFO Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 Supinfo Linux Community member. ### Campus lab manager linux @ SUPINFO Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 responsible of the laboratorie's life on the London's campus ### Software Engineering Intern @ Hedera Technology Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Development of the packaging of the Kanopya solution. Various studies to integrate software components in Kanopya. Check out the Hedera Technology website (hederatech.com) and Kanopya's one (kanopya.org) for more informations about this innovative SaaS and PaaS platform Perl programming, Linux (Debian) and Open Sources technologies. Cloud computing, web infrastructures, high availability. ### Supinfo Teaching Assistant @ Self-entrepreneur Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 I teached the following courses at Supinfo: - Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures - Mandriva Certified Administrator - Novell Certified Administrator ### Software Engineering Intern @ Direct Traffic Media Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Development of a statistic tool for the company (php) ### Software Engineering Intern @ ODESYS Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 research and development for the web department of the company. I made documentation over the e-commerce CMS Magento and implemented a first test website for the purpose of demonstration, and clients prospection. ### Software Engineering Intern @ unikity Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 This is a social network website. I practiced JAVA technologies there ### Software Engineering Intern @ Centrapel Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 This is the Free's hotline, one of the four French Internet Service Provider. I've increased my php skills there, and it was my first experience in a big enterprise (more than 1200 employees). The purpose of the mission was to participate in the reforging of the company's intranet ### Software Engineering Intern @ place de la formation Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 First internship, I learnt my first php basis there. Great experience in the professional formation world. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science University of Pennsylvania ### M.S in Computer Science Duke University ### Master's degree in Computer Sciences and information technologies SUPINFO ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/henrimaximedemoulin - Website: http://www.maxdml.com - Website: https://github.com/maxdml - Website: https://github.com/maxdml --- Source: https://flows.cv/henrimaximedemoulin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/henrimaximedemoulin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05