Laurent Picard
Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolLaurent Picard is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud with nine years at Google and over two decades of prior engineering and leadership experience, including co-founding and serving as CTO of Bookeen. He blends deep embedded-systems and R&D roots with cloud-native expertise, contributing practical serverless and event-driven Python samples for Knative and Knative-GCP that demonstrate real-world integrations like Twilio and vision processing. Based in Paris, he excels at translating complex technical concepts into usable developer content and tooling, informed by an MEng in Computer Science and an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computing. Known for a curiosity that spans hardware to high-level cloud services, he brings both product-focused leadership and hands-on engineering to developer ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Preparatory Class, T' (Science & Engineering), Higher School Preparatory Class, T' (Science & Engineering) at Lycée La Martinière MonplaisirMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Polytech Nice SophiaMaster of Science - MSc, Applied Mathematics and Computing, Master of Science - MSc, Applied Mathematics and Computing at University of Limerick
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Github Skills (16)
eventing10
google-cloud10
python10
knative10
flask10
flask-ask10
grpc9
serverless9
google-api8
google-vision-api8
google-cloud-vision8
dockers7
docker7
twilio-api6
video-intelligence-api6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
meteatamel/knative-tutorial
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
A collection of samples for Knative Serving, Knative Eventing and Knative-GCP projects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 15 days
Contributions summary:Laurent primarily contributed Python-based samples for the Knative platform, focusing on both Serving and Eventing functionalities. Their work included implementing various serverless applications, such as a "Hello World" service, an autoscaling configuration sample, and integrations with external services like Twilio. The user also developed samples for event-driven architectures within Knative, including message dumping, translation, and vision processing, demonstrating practical applications of the platform's capabilities. A gRPC server and client sample was also included.
eventinggcpgcp-projectsservingapp-engine
PicardParis/cherry-on-py
May 2020 - Mar 2022
Cloud computing is a game changer for developers. What can you do in a couple hundred lines of code?
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 10 months
couplepythongamepipelinecloud-computing
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