Jean-baptiste Lallement
Director Of Engineering at Canonical
Vannes, Brittany, France
Summary
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RockstarJean-baptiste Lallement is an open source engineering leader and Director of Engineering with nearly two decades building and scaling distributed teams to deliver products used by tens of millions worldwide. He currently leads engineering for Ubuntu Desktop, WSL, and Multipass, driving cross-functional alignment and cutting roadmap slippage by 80% while delivering regulatory compliance work under tight timelines. A hands-on former QA manager and full‑stack contributor, he still commits code to notable projects like the Ubuntu Server Installer (subiquity) with WSL-specific integrations. He has deep experience partnering with enterprise customers and platform vendors (notably Microsoft) to make Ubuntu a core part of the Windows developer experience and to enable fleet-scale deployments. Jean-baptiste is skilled at recruiting and mentoring distributed talent, improving predictability and product quality through process and architecture changes. Based in Vannes, Brittany, he combines pragmatic engineering with strategic roadmap execution to reinforce market leadership.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
installer10
wsl210
python10
installers10
ubuntu10
system-design9
back-end-development9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/subiquity
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Ubuntu Server Installer, and backend for Ubuntu Desktop Installer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 46 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jean-baptiste's commits primarily focus on the Ubuntu Server Installer for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) integration. The contributions involve refactoring and renaming configuration pages, adding new controllers, and implementing features for system setup, shutdown, and configuration within the WSL environment. These changes include modifying UI views and controllers and server-side logic to handle the WSL-specific configuration, including modifications to existing components and creating new ones.
ubuntu-coreubuntu-serverconsoleconfinstalleransible
jibel/freeplane-snap
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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