François Cantonnet
Co-founder, CTO at R'leyh Software
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois Cantonnet is a veteran technology leader and co-founder/CTO with two decades of experience building scalable AI-driven platforms and data pipelines for startups and Fortune 500s. Based in Seattle, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, having grown teams from a handful to 74+ engineers and launched global programs integrated with major telcos. He founded R’leyh Software and TopTalk.ai, shipping serverless, retrieval-augmented, and voice-enabled bot platforms that leverage cutting-edge models like GPT-4o and zero-shot TTS. François is skilled at accelerating time-to-market through pragmatic architecture choices—microservices, serverless, and data-first designs—that repeatedly cut cycle times from months to days. Known for mentoring leaders and scaling organizations without burnout, he pairs a PhD-level technical foundation with a practical, product-focused mindset.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at UTBMM.S., Computer Engineering, M.S., Computer Engineering at The George Washington UniversityPh.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at Université de Haute-Alsace Mulhouse-Colmar
English, French
Github Skills (60)
nexus10
crud10
type-safety9
dao9
prismic9
serverless-plugin8
graphql8
shield8
prisma8
database-tools8
admin7
javascript7
serverless-offline7
graphql-yoga7
mongodb7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
morgothulhu/nexus-plugin-prisma
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
A plugin for Nexus that integrates Prisma
Contributions:34 releases, 2 reviews, 52 commits in 7 months
typescriptnexusprisma
morgothulhu/sample-service-nodejs
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
boilerplategulpskeletonjavascriptexpress
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