Laurent Callarec
Chief Technology Officer at youzd
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLaurent Callarec is a pragmatic Chief Technology Officer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web platforms, currently leading engineering at youzd with Node.js, TypeScript and CI-driven workflows. A self-taught engineer who progressed from freelance DBA and project lead to senior roles at Etsy/A Little Market and insurtech Fluo, he blends strong craftsmanship with pragmatic process coaching (TDD, pair/mob programming, story/impact mapping). He has led architecture, migrations to AWS, monitoring initiatives and developer experience improvements, helping teams ship resilient, observable services faster. Laurent favors simplicity and measurable practices—evangelizing “monitor everything” and release-early philosophies—while also delivering tooling and automation to raise team velocity. Comfortable across backend, frontend and infra, he pairs technical depth with people-first leadership to grow teams and operational excellence. Unexpectedly, his background includes database- and ops-heavy consulting for large enterprise customers, giving him a rare mix of application-level craft and production-grade reliability know-how.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Université de Poitiers
French, English
Github Skills (47)
vala10
xfce10
cairo10
gtk10
elementaryos10
charting9
hdrhistogram9
chroot9
toggle8
sdk-nodejs7
docz7
linux7
react7
docker7
podman7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lcallarec/luxacode
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:61 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
lcallarec/HdrHistogram_vala
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Vala port of HdrHistogram
Contributions:88 commits, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 7 months
hdrhistogramvala
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.