Nicolas Dumazet

I used to live in busy Tokyo. Home is now Zürich, in the middle of the Swiss mountains.

I've spent a decade-sized chunk of my life at Google. I cut my teeth in Search Infrastructure for Image Search, making sure the plumbing behind images.google.com actually delivered, from crawling the web to indexing it. I then moved to Production Security, a Reliability focused team managing the high-stakes backends which underpin infrastructure trust for Google Cloud and internal applications. Currently, I'm the primary Security lead for our Internal Developer Platform, building components which help thousands of engineers ship code and features safely.

I invested quite some time in my early 20s caring for, and contributing to, Open Source software. Since the decline of Ohloh, there's no great way to showcase such involvement. My resume will tell you the gist of my professional background.

Friends are likely to describe me as someone displaying a peculiar, dry, sarcastic sense of humor. So there's that. I mean, if something on here sounds strange, remember my warning: “it's not you, it's me”.

Oh, and I'm French. Sorry. The only explanation I'll offer for that will come as a little story: I once happened to be waiting out a desert dust storm, philosophing on the meaning of life with a wise, and otherwise very pleasant old lady. Upon hearing of my origins, she commented: nobody's perfect.

There isn't much here, besides a desolated, neglected technical Blog . Maintaining this site is mostly a nice excuse to force myself to read every other year about the latest web trends, though. Responsive. 2.0. All that jazz. Yay. Aren't we excited now. (Yes, I'm using a CSS framework to compensate for my lack of artistic vision. It's called 'efficiency'.)