Aurélien Lajoie
Chief Technology Officer at NEAT Protect
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolAurélien Lajoie is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 21 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations across France and Europe. Currently CTO at Neat, he has held senior roles from VP of Engineering to Head of Architecture at companies like Kili Technology, ManoMano and Cdiscount, often leading large distributed teams and cloud migrations. His background blends deep hands-on systems work—contributions to util-linux (improving the cal utility and optimizing libuuid) and full‑stack Awesome WM widgets—with strategic delivery of platform, R&D and QA practices. He co-founded the Archilocus architects community, reflecting a commitment to sharing architectural practice and evolving definitions of architecture. Comfortable moving between low-level performance optimizations and high-level organizational design, he repeatedly turns operational challenges into scalable processes. Trained at École Polytechnique and ENSTA, he pairs rigorous engineering fundamentals with pragmatic product and team leadership.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée ChaptalMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering Sciences Simulation and Modelling. Computer Science., Master of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering Sciences Simulation and Modelling. Computer Science. at École PolytechniqueMaster Automobile and railway transportation, Master Automobile and railway transportation at ENSTA
English, French
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Github Skills (23)
web-widgets10
widgets10
linux10
c1110
c1710
uuid10
lua10
notification10
command-line-tool10
git9
json9
performance-optimization9
error-handling9
configuration-file8
configuration-management8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 15 PRs, 7 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aurélien primarily worked on enhancing widgets for the Awesome Window Manager, including adding new features and fixing bugs. Their contributions involved implementing weather and volume notifications, as well as options to customize their behavior. They also refactored the battery widget and addressed various code issues, demonstrating a focus on both UI/UX and backend integration within the Awesome WM environment.
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util-linux/util-linux
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aurélien primarily contributed to the `misc-utils/cal.c` utility within the `util-linux` repository. Their contributions focused on enhancing the `cal` tool by modifying and expanding its core functionality, including correctly centering the year, adding weekday support, and implementing a vertical display mode. These changes involved adjusting the week width calculation and adding helper functions. The user also improved performance of the `libuuid` library by optimizing the `uuid_unparse()` function.
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