Pierre Larger

Core member of the hiring team: reviewed 100s of applications, conducted dozens of technical interviews, and helped shape hiring standards.

Integration of hardware enclaves (SGX) in distributed networks

Maintenance of Pathfinder, the primary Rust implementation of a Starknet node

Security hardening of the Axelar Solana Amplifier following multiple audits

And more work under NDA

Early member of a 3-person team that migrated Kraken’s core backend from PHP to Rust; team grew to 80+ engineers over three years. Kraken is a major cryptocurrency exchange handling transactions worth hundreds of millions of USD on a daily basis.

Led the development of multiple security-sensitive features revolving mostly around authentication and onboarding. Also involved the development and maintenance of the testing infrastructure, metrics integration, and observability tooling.

Handled on-call duties, production debugging, and incident response.

Onboarded and mentored new engineers as the team scaled

Development and maintenance of mass email management solutions.

Significantly involved in the adoption of Docker at the company level, as well as in the design and implementation of Eptica’s next gen microservices.