Laurent Vaills
Principal Software Engineer at ForgeRock
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolLaurent Vaills is a Principal Software Engineer based in Grenoble with 15+ years designing and building robust, cloud-ready Java systems and service-oriented architectures. He blends hands-on development with architecture leadership, championing testable designs, CI practices, and reuse of existing services to accelerate delivery and maintainability. His career spans roles from building high-availability clustering and JTA integration at Bonitasoft to leading scalable document repositories leveraging NoSQL and search at Bestofmedia and shaping platform tooling at Kelkoo/Yahoo. At ForgeRock he continues to drive architectural quality while staying close to code, particularly around Linux, web services and cloud deployments. Known for favoring unit-testable designs over heavy integration tests, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that balances operational reliability with developer productivity.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at IUT ReimsMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computing, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computing at ESSI
English, French
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Github Skills (158)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
WrenSecurity/wrenig
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Wren:IG is a community‐developed reverse proxy server providing single sign-on (SSO).
Contributions:162 commits in 11 months
oauth2oidcreverse-proxysaml2sso
ForgeRock/forgerock-tile
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Provides configuration and integration tests for the Pivotal tile for the ForgeRock Cloud Foundry broker.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 4 months
foundrybrokerqbcore-frameworkcloud-foundrytile
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