Maxime Himeno
software engineering student at EPITA
I build backend and systems software: distributed services, infrastructure, and the performance-critical parts underneath.
Projects
All projectsNaoto Exchange
Personal R&D, Jul 2025-present
A trading exchange I built alone: it takes orders, matches buyers with sellers and keeps every balance up to date, pairing an order in under a microsecond.
CNP: Cloud-Native Platform
Team of six at EPITA, Feb-Dec 2026
A self-service platform where teams ask for the infrastructure they need, like a database, and get it without writing cloud configuration or waiting on another team.
Posts
All postsDeciding what the order path never has to do
September 24, 2026 · Naoto Exchange
Most of Naoto's latency was settled before any SIMD or kernel bypass, by moving everything an order doesn't need to wait on off the path it takes.
Modeling a project's infrastructure as a graph
September 24, 2026 · CNP: Cloud-Native Platform
A flat list of resources can't tell a load-bearing database from one nobody uses anymore. A dependency graph can, by walking it from the project's entry points.
One writer for every piece of state
September 24, 2026 · Naoto Exchange
Most locks exist because two things can write the same data, so Naoto makes sure they never do, whether they're separate services or two threads.