Guillaume Mourier is a product-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable web and distributed systems from Paris, currently Head of Product at Meilisearch. He blends hands-on backend craftsmanship—evidenced by contributions to the open-source Meilisearch search engine—with strategic product leadership that progressed from developer to Lead PM and now Head of Product. His background spans SaaS startups and enterprise R&D, with deep experience in APIs, distributed data platforms, and launching event and payment systems. A trained software engineer (SUPINFO) who later studied product management, he pairs technical rigor with customer-driven roadmapping and a knack for translating complex infra work into user-facing value. Outside work he brings an artistic sensibility to engineering, notably a passion for music that informs creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licence CASIR Systèmes Informatiques et Logiciels, Licence CASIR Systèmes Informatiques et Logiciels at IUT VALENCE
Product Management, Product Management at Join Maestro
BTS Informatique de gestion Spécialité Développeur d'application Informatique, BTS Informatique de gestion Spécialité Développeur d'application Informatique at Lycée Barthélémy de Laffemas
Master of Science (MS) Software engineering, Master of Science (MS) Software engineering at SUPINFO
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:57 reviews, 23 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Meilisearch project. Their work included modifying analytics-related code, updating settings, fixing event names for typo tolerance, and adding features related to dumps and snapshots. They also made changes to metrics and updated error handling. The commits demonstrate a focus on API functionality, performance improvements, and maintaining code quality.
🎲 A simple command set to accompany a deterministic use of Meilisearch API keys.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 34 commits in 1 month
apicontinous-deploymentkeysapi-keysdeterministic
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Guillaume Mourier - Head Of Product at Meilisearch