Julien Ricard
Chief Technology Officer Advertising at Webedia
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolJulien Ricard is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12+ years building high-scale web and advertising platforms from the ground up. Based in Paris, he architected and led delivery of Webedia’s adserver handling 50k requests/sec and 200M daily requests, along with CMS, SEO, programmatic and BI tools across dozens of international sites reaching ~20M monthly uniques. He combines hands-on engineering (PHP/JS/Go, on‑prem + Google Cloud) with product design and team building, growing tech organizations across multiple countries. Previously he led technology teams at Condé Nast and auFeminin, shipping subscription systems, ad tech and social features during rapid scale phases. Notably much of his impactful work is proprietary rather than open source, reflecting deep experience in production systems and revenue-critical tooling. He brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach to optimizing ad revenues and large-scale content platforms.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, General Studies, Science, Baccalauréat, General Studies, Science at Ecole alsacienneClasse préparatoire, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Finished alive, Classe préparatoire, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Finished alive at Lycée Saint LouisIngénieur, Landscape Architecture, 18/20, Ingénieur, Landscape Architecture, 18/20 at ENITHP
French, English, Russian
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Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
editor10
cors10
electron10
typescript10
ad-manager10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
doubleclick10
visual-studio-code10
mfe10
microsoft10
javascript9
docker-compose9
validation9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jarnix/PhpTelnet
Jun 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 10 months
jarnix/bashrcgenerator
Feb 2015 - Mar 2022
code source for bashrcgenerator.com
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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