Laurent Apollis
Staff Engineer TechLead - Data Platform
Montpellier, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurent Apollis is a Staff Engineer and Tech Lead specializing in data platforms and infrastructure, with over a decade of hands-on experience in DevOps, automation, and systems architecture. Based in Montpellier, France, he has progressed through senior engineering and leadership roles at Zendesk since 2018, shaping infrastructure and data platform reliability at scale. His background spans startups and product-led companies—from embedded smart objects at Violet to large-scale services at Meetic—bringing a pragmatic blend of deep systems knowledge and operational discipline. Laurent pairs technical leadership with day-to-day engineering: he mentors teams, drives platform roadmaps, and still contributes to automation and reliability work. A former world traveler who took a year off for a worldwide trip, he brings curiosity and broad perspective to solving complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Network and Telecom, DUT Network and Telecom at University of Montpellierengineer, engineer at INSIA
Github Skills (45)
terraform9
golang9
sre9
atlantis9
opennebula8
datadog8
puppet8
xen8
go8
automation8
vms8
aws8
virtual-machine8
vdi8
kvm8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bewie/collectd-twemproxy
Oct 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
bewie/collectd-puppetdb
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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