Julien Lestel is a seasoned CTO and cloud architect with 13 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native, serverless, Big Data and DevOps solutions across SMEs and innovative startups in commerce, IoT, FinTech and AI. As CTO/Cloud Consultant at CiTiO he provides "CTO as a Service" and 24/7 cloud outsourcing, specializing in AWS/GCP, Terraform, Go and scalable infrastructure. He combines strategic leadership from prior CTO and managing partner roles with deep implementation skills—contributing to open-source projects like TeslaMate by improving Tesla API integrations and token management. Based in Toulouse, Julien is as comfortable defining cloud strategy as he is modifying core API logic, bringing pragmatic engineering to complex, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Informatique de gestion, DUT, Informatique de gestion at IUT Blagnac
Ingénieur Informatique, Nouvelles Technologies de l'Informatique pour l'Entreprise, Ingénieur Informatique, Nouvelles Technologies de l'Informatique pour l'Entreprise at IUP NTIE
A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘 [main maintainer=@JakobLichterfeld]
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 reviews, 17 PRs, 64 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Julien focused on enhancing the TeslaMate project's integration with the Tesla API, including dynamic endpoint configuration. Their contributions include adding environment variables for API host, authentication, and streaming configurations. They also implemented changes to handle API token management and refresh, and added support for invalid certificates on WSS connections. The user's work involved modifications across multiple project files, suggesting involvement in core API interaction logic and configuration.
Contributions:33 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 7 months
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