I am a Backend Software Engineer living in Zürich, Switzerland. I work at Google’s Zürich office, where my focus is on building large graph databases applied to privacy systems. In 2021, I completed my Ph.D. in Paris, France, where I conducted research on large-scale analysis of the graph of public software development. In 2016, I obtained a MSc in theoretical computer science, majoring in machine learning.
I am also passionate about economics, particularly environmental economics and climate change research.
You can find my resume here.
My PhD was conducted as part of the Software Heritage project at Inria under the supervision of my PhD advisor, Stefano Zacchiroli. My research was focused on making accessible for research the graph of public software development, an immense interconnected graph of more than 25 billion software artifacts, linked together by more than 450 billion edges.
You can find the thesis here:
Antoine Pietri. Organizing the Graph of Public Software Development for Large-Scale Mining, PhD thesis. 2021.
I was a member of the following research program committees:
I was previously working as a Research Student on the C++ finite state machine framework Vcsn in the LRDE laboratory, under the supervision of Akim Demaille and with help from Jacques Sakarovitch, where I worked on:
I’m a strong advocate for evidence-based policies for climate change mitigation. There is an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence that carbon pricing is an efficient and fair solution to abate greenhouse gas emissions, and that adverse effects on low-income households can be considerably reduced or eliminated through a carbon dividend redistribution scheme.
I volunteer with Citizen’s Climate Lobby Europe to advocate for this solution. I went several times to the European Parliament where I met with MEPs to explain this scheme, which eventually ended up being integrated to the EU ETS2 policy (Social Climate Fund).
In 2014, I co-founded Girls Can Code! with Jill-Jênn Vie and Marin Hannache, a summer camp for high-school girls, with the goal to promote gender diversity in computer science. We were granted the Google RISE award ($20000) as a way to kickstart the initiative, which is still running today.
I have been an organizer of the French national programming contest Prologin from 2011 to 2021. I was the president of the organization in 2014, and after that mostly focused on the technical aspects of the contest.
I worked on a lot of very interesting projects there, among which:
I wrote algorithmic exercises and written subjects for the contest. You can find the most interesting ones here (in French):
I also created the tournament games of the finals in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
I have many contributions in various open source projects, most of which can be found on my GitHub.
Some school projects were interesting enough to be worth mentioning here: