Laurent Cazanove
Developer Experience Consultant at laurentcazanove.com
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurent Cazanove is a Paris-based freelance software engineer and developer experience specialist with 11 years of experience helping dev tools improve onboarding, documentation, and product UX. He pairs full-stack engineering with technical and UX writing, maintaining 10+ open-source libraries that collectively see over one million downloads per month. Previously a Developer Advocate at Meilisearch and Developer Experience roles at PandaScore and TwicPics, he blends product-facing content, API design, and hands-on implementation across Elixir, Go, Node.js and frontend stacks. Laurent also builds side projects like mtgbuilder.ai and nextmatch.lol and curates an open-source esports repo list, showing a practical interest in gaming ecosystems alongside developer tooling. Known for retaining clients post-employment and running developer programs end-to-end, he brings a mix of growth, support, and engineering rigor to developer-focused products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at EFREI - Grande école du numériqueComputer Sciences, Computer Sciences at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU / APIIT)
French, English
Github Skills (176)
vector-search10
ruby-sdk10
image-processing10
faceted-search10
vector-database10
semantic-search10
searchbar10
piracy10
instantsearch10
hybrid10
fuzzy-search10
javascript10
app-search10
unicorns10
browser10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Strift/portfolio
May 2019 - Sep 2025
My personal website
Contributions:130 PRs, 338 pushes, 84 branches in 6 years 6 months
wondersays
meilisearch/ecommerce-demo
Mar 2023 - Sep 2025
Nuxt 3 ecommerce site search with filtering and facets powered by Meilisearch
Contributions:1 review, 46 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years 6 months
ecommercemeilisearchnuxtfaceted-search
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