Ben Guillet
Product Engineer at Y Combinator
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Guillet is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO with 14 years building scalable backend systems and developer workflows across startups and growth-stage companies. He specializes in Ruby/Rails, GraphQL, Go, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch and AWS, and has deep experience owning observability, security/compliance (SOC2) and CI/CD from infra-as-code to fast, reliable deployments. As an early engineer at Agora he led core product integrations and infrastructure that later supported an acquisition, and at Remind he helped scale the largest messaging platform in education. He’s an active contributor to open-source deployment tooling—having improved logging and deployment flows in the popular remind101/empire PaaS for ECS—which reflects his knack for smoothing production operations. Recently he moved from consulting—where he built a full HealthTech stack and end-to-end pipelines on AWS/Terraform—to a full-time CTO role at Finnt, combining architecture, hiring and vendor negotiation experience. Known for translating complex requirements into auditable, production-ready systems, he blends strategic leadership with deep implementation fluency.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree/Diplôme d'Ingénieur Computer Science, Master's Degree/Diplôme d'Ingénieur Computer Science at UTBMExchange semester Computer Science, Exchange semester Computer Science at VILNIUS TECH - Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityExchange year Computer Science, Exchange year Computer Science at St. Olaf College
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
docker10
amazon-ecs10
dockers10
go10
aws10
aws-ecs10
logging10
paas10
cicd9
lua9
google-plus6
django-views6
fileio6
google-oauth6
iphone6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
remind101/empire
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
A PaaS built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 158 commits, 46 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the logging infrastructure and deployment process within the PaaS. Their contributions included splitting and chaining filters within the logging system, which likely improved the efficiency of log processing. They also addressed deployment-related tasks by implementing a command to deploy images and integrating the handling of environment variables, contributing to a smoother deployment workflow. Furthermore, the user updated import paths and vendor files, indicating involvement in maintaining the project's dependencies and build environment.
amazon-ec2paasdockerawsecs
remind101/logspout-kinesis
Jul 2015 - May 2016
A Logspout adapter for writing logs to Amazon Kinesis
Contributions:128 commits, 41 PRs, 93 pushes in 9 months
amazon-kinesis
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