# Hugues Bruant

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hugues

20 years of software engineering experience, a deep drive towards robustness and efficiency, and a knack for noticing high-leverage opportunities that most people miss or shy away from.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Affirm, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Led Python 2 to 3 migration for ML Platform
- Increased ML model release velocity tenfold, from ~1y to ~10y, via improved tooling and processes
- Decreased CI time-to-green-build from >90min to <10min, despite increase in scale
- Decreased python dev env setup/update from >5min to to a few seconds, with sub-second updates in happy path
- Drove improved coverage and accuracy of Python typing across the codebase
- Sped up Python typechecking by orders of magnitude, via better internal tooling and upstream fixes

### Principal Software Engineer @ Redbooth, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto

### Principal Software Engineer @ AeroFS
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Senior Software Architect @ AeroFS
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Team Lead: Distributed Synchronization Algorithms

### Software Engineer @ AeroFS
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, California
* Design and implementation of the RESTful Content API
* Design and implementation of the gateway server and tunnel protocol that makes this API easily accessible through firewalls
* Significant rework of the desktop client to reliably and consistently handle case-sensitivity, unicode normalization and other filesystem peculiarities on all platforms.
* Significant performance and reliability improvements to various areas of the desktop client
* Significant rework of the desktop client to allow multiple root folders, and sharing any folder outside the AeroFS folder
* Design and implementation of the local block storage for Team Server

### Software Engineer intern @ AeroFS
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, California
* Designed, implemented revision history UI and introduced it on the company blog
 * Overhauled conflict resolution UI
 * Overhauled folder sharing flow (backend and UI)
 * Designed and implemented major new features (backend and UI)

### Software Engineer intern @ ARM
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Worked in System Design Division, Fast Models team.

 * Designed, implemented and deployed scripts to collect and graph nightly performance metrics.
 * Achieved 10x speedup in important trace plugins.
 * Implemented a variety of code generation optimizations.
 * Designed and implemented fine­grained tracking of memory usage for all components of the simulator.

### Software Engineer intern @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Zürich, Switzerland
Worked in Search Infrastructure, Sitemaps team.

 * Designed and implemented various spam fighting measures in the sitemaps pipeline.
 * Rewritten the sitemaps fetch scheduler for better scaling.
 * Received a peer bonus for “awesome work on sitemaps”.


## Education
### Exchange semester in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### MS in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics
National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble

### PCSI / PC* in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
Lycée Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/huguesbruant

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Last updated: 2026-04-05