Aurélien Foucret
Search Enginneer at Mistral AI
Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolAurélien Foucret is a search engineer with 12+ years of experience building and refining search and e-commerce platforms, currently working at Mistral AI after a multi-year tenure at Elastic. He brings deep expertise in ElasticSearch, Magento/ElasticSuite merchandising, and back-end systems, having implemented rule-based virtual categories and contributed to Kibana’s Enterprise Search and App Search features. A former software architect at Smile, Aurélien has strong roots in open-source and LAMP/NoSQL ecosystems (Solr, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, MongoDB) and a history of driving R&D and technical leadership across agencies. He blends full-stack capabilities—improving both backend indexing and frontend UX for search—with pragmatic engineering for production at scale. Based in Poitiers, France, he combines academic training in computer science with a practical background in e-commerce integrations and ETL (Pentaho), making him adept at turning complex search requirements into performant, user-facing features. An under-the-radar strength is his knack for bridging merchandising needs and engineering constraints, demonstrated by his ElasticSuite and Kibana contributions.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Technologies de l'Information et Systèmes Informatique, Licence Technologies de l'Information et Systèmes Informatique at Université de PoitiersCPGE - MPSI/MP, CPGE - MPSI/MP at Lycée Camille GuerinBac S, Bac S at Lycée M. BerthelotMaster Informatique Informatique, Master Informatique Informatique at Université de Bordeaux
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Github Skills (34)
search-engine10
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
ui-design10
metasearch10
magento10
kibana10
searching10
uid10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
web-search10
aws-elasticsearch10
text-search10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Smile-SA/elasticsuite
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Smile ElasticSuite - Magento 2 merchandising and search engine built on ElasticSearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 328 commits, 541 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aurélien focused on implementing and refactoring features related to virtual categories within the Magento 2 ElasticSuite. This included modifications to the admin panel for merchandising, database setup, and the introduction of a rule-based system for virtual category definition. The commits also refactored code for virtual category rules and adjusted the category index to support these features, thereby improving product search functionality.
merchandisingmagento-2magento2search-engineelasticsearch
elastic/kibana
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 11 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Aurélien contributed to the Kibana project by implementing and modifying features within the Enterprise Search module, primarily focusing on the App Search components. Their work involved updating routes, improving error handling, and enabling new functionalities such as adding BYOEI (Bring Your Own Elasticsearch Index) engines. They also addressed UI issues and implemented enhancements related to object and nested fields, indicating a focus on both backend configurations and frontend user interface elements within the application. Additionally, the user worked on fixing sorting issues and implementing changes to improve the overall user experience.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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