Hugo Villain is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building graph APIs, developer products, data crawlers and playful web projects from the Greater Paris area. At Prismic he progressed from software developer to technical lead, blending hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership and a taste for developer tooling. He co-founded Whire and has a history of shipping side-projects—some successful, some intentionally allowed to retire when domain renewal time comes. Trained at 42 and with studies in philosophy at Sorbonne, he pairs pragmatic, code-first problem solving with a human-centered perspective on product and probity. Active on Twitter and comfortable letting experiments live or die, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a knack for turning exploratory ideas into production-grade developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at 42
Philosophy, Philosophy at Université Paris-Sorbonne
Contributions:20 commits, 26 PRs, 111 pushes in 8 months
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