Guillaume Lastecoueres
Chief Technology Officer at BIEKos
Cauca, Colombia
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Top SchoolGuillaume Lastecoueres is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building resilient backend systems and managing engineering teams from Colombia. He has deep hands-on expertise in Python, workflow engines, Celery, SQLAlchemy and large-scale metadata processing developed during multiple roles at CERN and as a long-time contributor to the Invenio digital library framework. At BIEKos he combines strategic leadership with practical engineering, focusing on robust exception handling, serialization and configuration management to keep heavy workflows running without breaking servers. His background spans support and product engineering roles at TIND and early work in realtime streaming and server administration, giving him a rare mix of ops, support and systems development experience. An active open-source maintainer on a prominent project used by research libraries, he brings both academic-scale engineering rigor and startup agility. Collected across European research institutions and commercial teams, his career shows a consistent focus on reliable metadata pipelines and scalable backend architecture.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureat, Scientifique - SI, Admis - Mention AB, Baccalaureat, Scientifique - SI, Admis - Mention AB at Lycée François VillonDUT, Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle, Admis, DUT, Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle, Admis at IUT GEII , ToursDiplome d'ingenieur (+5), Informatique, Admis, Diplome d'ingenieur (+5), Informatique, Admis at Polytech'Tours
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
python10
back-end-development10
celery10
io10
nio10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
json9
flask-ask9
rabbitmq9
flask9
rest-api9
xslt8
postgresql8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
inveniosoftware/invenio
Oct 2013 - May 2017
Invenio digital library framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Invenio digital library framework. Their work focused on exception handling, serialization, and configuration management within the `BibConvert`, `Celery`, and `Plotextractor` modules. The user also made improvements to the OAIHarvest module, integrating new workflows and modifying the database layer for improved efficiency and added support for filtering and the management of workflow data, thus improving its functionality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user focused on improvements in the workflow engine to ensure that heavy processes can work without breaking the server.
digital-librarymultimedia-repositorypythonredisinveniosoftware
pedrogaudencio/gitbeep
May 2014 - Feb 2021
Everytime a new commit happens, it plays a song
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 6 years 9 months
songpythoneverytimecommitmusic
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