Julien Lecomte
Senior Director Of Engineering at Samsung Electronics
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Lecomte is a senior software engineering leader with 11+ years of experience scaling teams and shipping large distributed systems, currently leading 25 engineers in Samsung’s North America Bixby Lab. He combines hands‑on engineering—maintaining subsystems he originally authored—with strategic oversight across AI platform services, developer tools, multi‑platform SDKs and infrastructure. Julien grew teams quickly at Viv Labs, helped turn its technology into Bixby 2.0, and previously led the rebuild of Yahoo Mail used by hundreds of millions of users. He is fluent across backend, frontend, DevOps and security domains and contributes to open-source DevOps tooling, improving Ansible GitLab modules and Debian orchestration roles. Known as a curious, humble manager, he mentors leaders while balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term platform vision. Trained at CentraleSupélec, he brings pragmatic technical depth and a history of solving tricky interoperability and scale problems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Software Engineering, Masters Computer Software Engineering at CentraleSupélec
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
ansible-galaxy10
gitlab-api10
python10
devops10
debian10
ansible10
yaml9
ansible-collections9
system-administration9
documentation8
zabbix8
dockers7
docker7
apache6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
debops/debops
May 2021 - Jan 2023
DebOps - Your Debian-based data center in a box
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 174 commits, 43 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of the DebOps infrastructure. They implemented and documented network configurations for Tinc VPNs, added and maintained the minidlna and Zabbix agent roles, improving the monitoring capabilities of the system. The user also worked on the Apache2 module, and the reboot role, enhancing the system's overall functionality and maintainability.
gitlab-cicenterpkiboxdata-center
ansible-collections/community.general
Apr 2022 - Sep 2024
Ansible Community General Collection
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 13 PRs, 23 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Julien's commits focused on enhancing the `gitlab_project` and `gitlab_group` Ansible modules within the community.general collection. They added new parameters and options to these modules, improving their functionality. Additionally, the user refactored code, sorting parameters to prevent future merge conflicts and aiding in adding more params. This work primarily involved modifying the module's Python code to reflect changes in the GitLab API and improve user experience.
ansibleansible-roleansible-collection
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