Adrien Champion

OCamlPro

For too long a time, the OCaml language has been developed by academics for academics. OCamlPro aims to provide business-level and long-term support to the OCaml language to make it more suitable for use in a wider range of professional environments. OCamlPro is a French software company born in 2011 and located in Paris and Essonne. We are dedicated to improving the quality of software, through the use of formal methods. For that purpose, OCamlPro promotes the use of OCaml, a fast and expressive, statically typed state-of-the-art programming language, matured for more than 30 years in the French public research lab Inria. OCamlPro also develops verification tools, such as the Alt-Ergo theorem prover. Today, we are mostly focusing on three topics: * Formal methods: OCamlPro is involved in collaborative projects with academic and industrial partners to develop tools for software verification, such as the Alt-Ergo SMT Solver (from LRI). * Blockchains: since 2014, OCamlPro has been deeply involved in the development of the Tezos ledger and helped design the Tezos prototype, as well as developed the ICO infrastructure of Tezos on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Since April 2018, OCamlPro has been working for the Tezos Foundation on the Tezos codebase to prepare for the launch. Additionally, OCamlPro initiated several Tezos-related projects, such as TZScan (https://tzscan.io), the Tezos Block Explorer, and Liquidity, a higher-level programming language for smart contracts (http://liquidity-lang.org/), with initial tooling for formal verification using the Why3 (INRIA) and Alt-Ergo tools. * OCaml tooling: we help optimize OCaml (flambda) and design development tools for OCaml (open-source most of the time). Such tools range from command-line tools (such as OPAM or ocp-build), or GUI tools (the OCaml Memory Profiler), to web-based tools (TryOCaml, the OCaml MOOC with the learn-OCaml platform of the OCaml Foundation of Inria).