Frédéric Barthelet is a Paris-based CTO and co-founder with eight years in software and cloud-native engineering, combining hands-on serverless development with startup leadership. He grew Theodo’s Serverless business unit from zero to €3.2M in revenue while recruiting and managing 35+ engineers, and has since co-founded multiple ventures, currently serving as CTO at Alpic. An AWS Community Builder and ServerlessDays Paris organizer, he contributes to flagship open-source projects like the Serverless Framework and Lift, driving AWS integrations and developer-experience improvements (including Mocha→Jest test migrations). His early training and field experience in civil engineering give him a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to infrastructure-as-code and operational resilience. He blends product P&L ownership with deep technical craftsmanship, focusing on reliable, maintainable serverless systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Civil Engineering, Finance, Math, Physics, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Civil Engineering, Finance, Math, Physics at Ecole centrale de Paris
MPSI - PSI*, MPSI - PSI* at Lycée Sainte-Geneviève
Expanding Serverless Framework beyond functions using the AWS CDK
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:21 releases, 68 reviews, 204 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Frédéric primarily focused on refactoring and migrating the project's testing framework from Mocha to Jest. They also made changes to the project's configuration files to align with the new testing setup. Additionally, the user addressed and fixed ESLint errors across multiple project files. These changes indicate a focus on code quality, maintainability, and potentially improving the developer experience through a more modern testing approach.
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:60 reviews, 54 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Frédéric primarily contributed to the back-end of the Serverless Framework, focusing on AWS-related integrations. Their work involved fixing issues related to AWS EventBridge target ID limits, supporting region selection for SSM variables, and enhancing the framework's configuration schema. The user also refactored code, upgraded dependencies, and added support for CF import values and references in various contexts, indicating a focus on infrastructure and AWS platform support. These contributions demonstrate a good understanding of AWS services and infrastructure-as-code principles.
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