Guillaume Lajarige is an experienced engineering manager and hands-on technical leader based in Grenoble with 12 years of practice delivering web and open-source software. He currently leads a 13-person cross-functional R&D team at iTop by Combodo, aligning product strategy with engineering execution while emphasizing people-first leadership, high code quality and sustainable delivery. Previously he balanced deep technical ownership—modernizing frameworks, leading PHP migrations and designing modular UIs—with public community engagement as a staff technical lead and long-time contributor to the iTop open-source suite. A former CTO and co-founder, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with strong process discipline, CI/CD and pragmatic technical debt management to speed delivery and improve reliability. Notably, his contributions to the popular iTop project include substantial test reorganization and PHP documentation efforts that improved maintainability for the broader community. He holds a Master MIAGE from Université Joseph Fourier and brings a pragmatic, solution-driven mindset to complex engineering and product challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master MIAGE Informatique Management, Master MIAGE Informatique Management at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
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