Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Fountain
Stockholm, Sweden
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François Falala-sechet is a hands-on senior engineering leader and startup founder with 11+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products, most recently serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Fountain. He co-founded and served as CTO of Clevy (acquired 2023), where he translated company vision into fast-moving technical roadmaps and efficient processes that shipped high-impact HR products with limited resources. A pragmatic executor comfortable under pressure, he pairs deep engineering chops—including creator and core maintainer of the CSML language and notable open-source contributions to serverless-offline WebSocket support—with executive leadership and a habit of learning on the fly. Based in Stockholm, he blends product-focused technical strategy with operational rigor, mentorship, and a curiosity that spans from low-level devops to data privacy and developer tooling. An unexpected detail: his background includes formal musicology and cello training, reflecting a creative, disciplined mindset he brings to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DEM Violoncelle classe de Raphaël Pidoux, DEM Violoncelle classe de Raphaël Pidoux at CNR de Paris
Licence Musicologie, Licence Musicologie at Université Paris-Sorbonne
Architecte numérique Computer Sciences, Architecte numérique Computer Sciences at 42 Paris
Leadership Certificate Leadership certificate, Leadership Certificate Leadership certificate at HEC Paris
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:François primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the serverless-offline project, specifically focusing on WebSocket support. Their work included implementing the deletion of WebSocket connections, adding error handling during the connection phase, and enhancing the authorizer feature. Additionally, they added and refined end-to-end tests, particularly for WebSocket connection closure scenarios, ensuring robustness and proper API behavior.
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 1 month
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François Falala-sechet - Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Fountain