Francois Garillot

François Garillot is based in Seattle, where he works on distributed computing at Facebook. He received a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique in 2011, and worked on Spark Streaming's back-pressure while working at Lightbend in 2015. His interests include type systems, leveraging programming languages to make analytics simpler to express, and a passion for Scala, Spark, and roasted arabica. When not at work, he can be found enjoying the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

François Garillot is based in Seattle, where he works on distributed computing at Facebook. He received a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique in 2011, and worked on Spark Streaming's back-pressure while working at Lightbend in 2015. His interests include type systems, leveraging programming languages to make analytics simpler to express, and a passion for Scala, Spark, and roasted arabica. When not at work, he can be found enjoying the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. See less