Hervé Labas
Staff Product Manager at Checkly
France
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Top SchoolHervé Labas is a seasoned product leader with 11+ years building developer- and content-centric platforms, currently a Staff Product Manager at Checkly after senior roles at Metabase, GitBook, Prisma and multiple leadership stints at Contentful where he scaled content management and developer experiences. He blends hands-on engineering roots with entrepreneurial instincts (founder of The Big Labasky and earlier startups), enabling him to translate technical constraints into pragmatic product strategy and team structures. At Prisma he grew PM and design teams and helped take an open-source product to 400k active developers, and at Contentful he drove platform and pricing initiatives that supported sustained revenue growth. Known for futures-oriented product visioning and cross-functional orchestration, he excels at aligning roadmaps across engineering, design and go-to-market. Based in France, he pairs deep technical background from INSA Lyon with a track record of spinning early ideas into repeatable, revenue-generating products.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Computer science, Engineer Computer science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonBachelor of Science Industrial Technologies, Bachelor of Science Industrial Technologies at Lycée Léonard de Vinci
English, French, German
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Github Skills (141)
yum10
dashboard10
postgresql10
databases10
prismic10
markdown10
sql-query10
javascript10
clojure10
sdk10
metabase10
sql10
orm-library10
data-visualization10
database10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase-debugger
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Internal debugger for sessions recorded on Metabase internal releases
Contributions:16 reviews, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 months
thebiglabasky/googleful
Jan 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 5 months
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