Florent Clairambault is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Paris with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems and engineering teams. He has a proven track record leading transformations—from driving a 36-service microservice architecture with GraphQL APIs at habx to running core backend platforms and operational processes as CTO at Stonal. Hands-on across languages and stacks (Golang, Java, C/C++), he still contributes to open-source tooling such as an extensible FTP server with S3, SFTP and cloud connectors. Known for instilling accountability and production-first practices—daily releases, feature flags, and thorough architecture documentation—he pairs strategic roadmap ownership with deep technical mentoring on profiling, DB indexing and debugging. His background spans payments, NLP, and high-throughput systems, reflecting a pragmatic engineer-manager who bridges product needs and reliable execution.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree IT, Engineer's Degree IT at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.
Lycée Saint-Joseph de Reims
University Partnership Electrical Engineering, University Partnership Electrical Engineering at University of Staffordshire
Golang based autonomous FTP server with SFTP, S3, Dropbox, and Google Drive connectors.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 releases, 15 reviews, 81 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Florent primarily worked on building the core functionality of an FTP server. Their contributions included the initial setup of a basic server, integrating configuration loading, and implementing user authentication. They also added support for different file system backends, including local OS, S3, SFTP, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Furthermore, the user refactored parts of the codebase, adding TLS support and features like anonymous login.
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