Alain Helaili
Field CTO & Solution Engineering Director, EMEA at GitHub
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlain Helaili is a seasoned technology leader with 36 years of experience, currently serving as Field CTO & Solution Engineering Director for EMEA at GitHub, where he blends strategic leadership with hands-on solutions engineering. He has a long track record scaling developer-focused sales and technical teams across Europe, evolving from presales and consulting roles to senior technical sales leadership at GitHub, MongoDB, dynaTrace and BEA. Based in Paris, he excels at translating complex platform and observability needs into customer outcomes, frequently driving adoption through workshops, POCs and large technical engagements. Known among peers as a passionate “GitHubber,” he combines deep engineering training from ENSIIE with real-world sales engineering chops, often bridging product, developer experience and enterprise strategy. An understated strength is his ability to operate effectively across startup-like teams and structured enterprises, accelerating adoption in telco, finance, media and retail accounts.
37 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BTS, Electronics and programming, BTS, Electronics and programming at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Lycée Saint Exupéry, CréteilMaster, Computing, Master, Computing at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise
English, French
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Github Skills (126)
rendering10
github-app10
git10
probot10
github-flow10
github-pages10
asciidoc10
explore10
jekyll10
shieldsio9
hubot9
github-desktop9
golang9
server-side9
nest9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
helaili/actions-showcase
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
A showcase for GitHub Actions!
Contributions:105 commits, 43 PRs, 130 pushes in 10 months
shieldsshieldsiobadgeshowcase
octodemo/MySampleExpressAppOnAzure
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
A sample Express app with some actions and bots!!!
Contributions:1 release, 26 PRs, 66 pushes in 6 months
expressapp
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