Julien Gobillot
Backend Engineering Manager - Core Product Listeners at Deezer
Puteaux, Île-de-France, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Gobillot is a seasoned backend engineering manager with nine years of experience shaping core product infrastructure at Deezer, where he progressed from senior engineer to Lead Backend Engineer and now leads the Core Product Listeners team. He combines hands-on backend expertise (PHP/Symfony origins, large-scale service design) with people leadership, driving technical vision, architecture choices and delivery for user-facing platforms. Julien has a track record of leading cross-functional teams and sustaining high-quality production systems built for scale, informed by earlier roles on major media and sports sites at e-TF1. Educated in computer science in France and the Netherlands, he pairs strong academic foundations with pragmatic product-focused engineering. A practical problem-solver, he often balances long-term architectural direction with the operational realities of frequent releases and legacy migrations.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur, Génie Informatique, Ingénieur, Génie Informatique at Université de Technologie de CompiègneMaster, Informatique, Master, Informatique at Universiteit Twente
French, English
Github Skills (13)
python10
esphome10
home-automation9
asyncio9
automation9
privacy9
raspberry-pi9
home-assistant9
esp329
mqtt9
iot9
garden8
internet-of-things8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
j5lien/esphome-idasen-desk-controller
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
ESPHome component for Ikea Idasen desk control
Contributions:12 releases, 6 reviews, 21 commits in 1 year 9 months
deskhome-assistantesphome-componentesphomeikea
jgobillot/kaylo
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 54 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
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