Summary
Hugues Pouillot is a product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven products and scaling teams and systems across startups and growth-stage companies. He has founded two startups—Dashblock, which used ML to turn websites into APIs, and Sharette, a carpooling app deployed in universities and integrated with Paris transit—bringing together product strategy, algorithm design and go-to-market execution. At happn he built an event processing platform handling 9k events/sec and led data infrastructure and analytics work that powered recommendations, churn prediction and segmentation. More recently he served as Staff Software Engineer at Finegrain and now works on error tracking at PostHog, blending hands-on engineering with product ownership. Comfortable moving between data science, backend systems and product, he combines technical depth from CentraleSupélec with practical startup grit and an eye for turning experiments into scalable features.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
2012 MS in Computer Science, 2012 MS in Computer Science at CentraleSupélec
2009 PCSI-PC*, 2009 PCSI-PC* at Lycée Hoche
French, English, German, Spanish