Loup Topalian
CTO at Ask Mona
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLoup Topalian is a CTO and technical leader with a decade of hands-on engineering and architecture experience building cloud-native systems, fast delivery platforms, and developer-friendly tooling from Paris. He has led foundational architecture and observability efforts at high-growth grocery and telecom startups, helped scale consumer-facing order platforms across countries, and guided teams through acquisitions and rapid iteration. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he has deep experience with TypeScript/Node, React, serverless architectures, IaC and event-driven systems, and has improved build and packaging workflows in open-source tooling like the serverless-esbuild plugin. Colleagues value his blend of fast delivery mindset and engineering discipline—raising DX while enforcing CI/CD and best practices. His background in philosophy hints at a reflective, systems-oriented approach to solving complex product and organizational problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Philosophy Philosophy, Bachelor of Philosophy Philosophy at University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
English, French
Github Skills (14)
packaging10
nodejs10
serverless10
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
esbuild10
aws9
bundler9
bundling9
plugin9
npm8
yarnpkg8
cicd7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
floydspace/serverless-esbuild
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
💨 A Serverless framework plugin to bundle JavaScript and TypeScript with extremely fast esbuild
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 32 commits, 14 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Loup primarily contributed to optimizing the serverless build process for the project. Their work focused on enhancing the individual packaging of functions, improving dependency management (addressing scoped and nested dependencies), and refining the external module handling. This involved significant modifications to the build process, including the introduction of features like esbuild plugin support and adjustments to the offline and local environment configurations.
esbuild-pluginbundlerbundleserverlessesbuild
olup/lunii-admin
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 59 commits in 6 months
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