Damien Laurent-nauguet
Head Of Engineering at 42
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Laurent-nauguet is a Head of Engineering with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and leading cross-functional teams for startups and scale-ups. He combines a strong technical foundation in JavaScript/TypeScript and system architecture (DDD, hexagonal) with proven operational chops—managing multi-million euro budgets, multi-region AWS deployments, and GDPR responsibilities. Damien has a track record of taking projects from greenfield to production rapidly, notably redesigning 42’s network services to launch campuses within a year and stabilizing STATION F’s platform and infrastructure. He pairs strategic leadership—hiring, OKRs, and process design—with active contribution to code, testing strategies, observability, and performance fixes. Comfortable switching between hands-on development and executive coordination, he excels at reducing technical debt while aligning engineering work to business outcomes. Unusually for an engineering leader, his background in nuclear engineering and early automation work gives him a disciplined systems-thinking approach to complex, safety- and reliability-conscious projects.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
IT Architecture Expert IT Computer Science, IT Architecture Expert IT Computer Science at 42National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
mongoose10
tinder10
mongodb9
rubiks-cube9
nodejs9
lodash9
redux8
mysql8
web-application8
puzzle7
crossword7
solver7
french7
javascript6
algorithm4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dlaurent42/red-tetris
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Multiplayer Tetris game web application. 42 school project.
Contributions:101 commits, 4 pushes in 4 months
hooks-api-reactjavascriptjestlodashmongodb
dlaurent42/npuzzle
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
N-puzzle ("taquin" in French) game solver. 42 school project.
Contributions:47 commits, 4 pushes in 3 months
crosswordgame42-schoolsolverpuzzle
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