Guillaume De Lafond
Co-Founder, CTO at Aqua Ray SAS
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillaume De Lafond is a pragmatic technology founder and CTO with 13+ years building and operating web hosting and private cloud infrastructure from Paris and Barcelona. As co-founder and technical director of Aqua Ray SAS since 2003 he scaled a boutique datacenter and managed hosting business to serve 3,000+ customers with a small, highly technical team. He previously co-founded Nuage Labs to build a POSIX-compliant Cloud Storage Gateway—an ambitious project that lives on as open-source despite the startup’s commercial challenges—illustrating his appetite for deep systems work and resilient engineering. Comfortable across operations, custom private cloud integrations and managed services, he combines hands-on infrastructure engineering with strategic product tradeoffs. Based in the Greater Paris area and trained at EPITA, he brings entrepreneurial persistence and a track record of turning complex storage and hosting requirements into practical, deployable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High school Telecommunication, High school Telecommunication at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Github Skills (158)
mysql-database10
xapi10
dashboard10
statsd10
postgresql10
web-application10
python10
websocket10
grafana10
ovirt10
chat10
backup10
vms10
influxdb10
collaboration10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aquaray/disk_benchmark
Sep 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
aquaray/xoa_summary
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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