Laurent Saint-félix
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolLaurent Saint-félix is a Principal Software Engineer based in Toulouse with 12 years of experience optimizing infrastructure and high-traffic web applications. He specializes in industrialization, performance and CI/CD, with hands-on expertise in back-end and DevOps workflows developed at Elastic and earlier leadership roles. At Elastic he contributed to the official Go client for Elasticsearch, improving CI interoperability and test-generation processes—demonstrating a knack for making complex integrations reliable. His background spans startups and enterprise projects, from Drupal and Django orchestration to Oracle and Java systems for aviation clients, giving him strong cross-domain architecture experience. Laurent pairs technical leadership with practical tooling work—migrating version control, scripting deployments and authoring industrialization guidelines that scale teams and operations. He brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to turning high-volume data challenges into robust, automatable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
DAEU, Histoire, DAEU, Histoire at Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail (Toulouse II)Bachelor's degree, Software engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software engineering at VAE - Concepteur-développeur informatique - BAC+4BEP, Comptabilité et commerce / gestion, BEP, Comptabilité et commerce / gestion at CFA Blagnac commerce et servicesBAC +2, Software development, BAC +2, Software development at ARCTIA
French, English
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Github Skills (13)
sh10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
script10
go10
shell10
aws-elasticsearch10
devops10
scripting10
cicd10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
oh-my-zsh6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/go-elasticsearch
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
The official Go client for Elasticsearch
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 releases, 58 reviews, 434 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Laurent contributed to the back-end of the project, implementing changes for CI with other clients and also contributed to the internal tests generation process. They were involved in updating and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline by modifying the shell scripts used. Their work included ensuring the compatibility and integration with external systems by restructuring the configurations and update on features.
golanggo-clientgoelasticsearch
elastic/elastic-transport-go
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Transport struct and utilities shared among Go Elastic client libraries
Contributions:12 reviews, 16 commits, 25 PRs in 3 months
golanggolang-libraryelasticclient-librariesstruct
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