François Lagier
CTO Co-founder at CloudForecast
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois Lagier is a seasoned technology leader and CTO/co-founder with 12 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and cloud cost-optimization products from San Diego. He founded and leads the engineering efforts at CloudForecast, applying deep AWS expertise to help companies avoid surprise bills and get more value from cloud spend. His background includes designing and scaling real-time bidding platforms at TubeMogul and Perfect Audience—systems that handled billions of bid requests daily—bringing strong distributed systems and data pipeline experience. François progressed from full-stack and Java/J2EE development to senior engineering roles at Twitter and Marin Software before moving into startup leadership. He blends hands-on systems design, operational support, and team building, with a practical bent for turning complex infrastructure into measurable business outcomes. Outside work he’s a family man and Marseille soccer fan, a detail that hints at his team-first, passionate approach.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Certificate in Management and Marketing of Information Technology, Certificate Certificate in Management and Marketing of Information Technology at Dominican University of California2011 Masters Degree, 2011 Masters Degree at Supinfo International University
Github Skills (15)
codahale-metrics8
ecr8
chrome-extension8
chrome8
upstream6
java5
aws5
docker4
kubernetes3
terraform3
terraform-module3
paxos3
netty3
zookeeper3
distributed-systems2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CloudForecast/tf-aws-iam
Oct 2019 - Jan 2024
Terraform module that creates the CloudForecast Role
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
terraformterraform-moduleroleaws
CloudForecast/blog-posts
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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