Speaker - Raphaël Gomès

Raphaël is a Mercurial developer working at Octobus, a company that has collectively landed thousands of upstream changes and brought new user-facing concepts to the table. He has a hand in most of the Rust rewrite of some of Mercurial's internals, focusing on greatly improving performance. After a few years as a full-stack web developer for various private companies, he was convinced that a better calling for him was making free and open-source software that is fast and reliable. Version control systems are used by virtually every programmer, and Raphaël is now trapped with the realization that, should he stop his upstream efforts, he will simply find himself hitting the same issues with VCS he abandoned, everyday for the rest of his professional life. Hopefully, that problem will have been fixed by then; in the mean time, he will not tire in trying to make the VCS ecosystem better, be it through Mercurial or any other.