Lucas Michot
Head Of Engineering at Stealth Startup
Berlin, Germany
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Lucas Michot is a Head of Engineering based in Berlin with over 13 years of hands-on experience and more than 20 years in technology roles spanning development, team leadership, and large-scale digital transformation. He combines deep backend expertise—evidenced by sustained open-source contributions to high-profile Laravel projects like illuminate/database, passport, and framework—with senior leadership at Shopify and multiple media and enterprise clients. Skilled in system architecture, data modeling, CI/CD and agile delivery, he excels at scaling engineering teams and optimizing processes to turn complex requirements into reliable production systems. Lucas thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution, often stepping in to refactor legacy codebases and improve maintainability while driving product-forward decisions. A pragmatic engineer-manager, he brings a rare mix of low-level code craftsmanship (bug fixes, refactors, test improvements across popular PHP libraries) and proven program-level delivery experience across startups and large organizations.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Senior technician certificate IT Management, Senior technician certificate IT Management at Lycée Saint-Vincent de SenlisNational Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
German, French, English
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Github contributions (5)
SocialiteProviders/Providers
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
A Collection of Providers for Laravel Socialite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:189 reviews, 40 commits, 157 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to adding and improving various OAuth2 and social login providers for the Laravel Socialite package. Their commits focused on implementing and refining provider-specific functionalities, including handling authentication flows, token management, and user data retrieval. The user modified and added providers like Eveonline, SuperOffice, and others, ensuring consistent configuration access and proper decoding of response bodies. These changes enhanced the package's ability to integrate with diverse social platforms.
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illuminate/support
Oct 2013 - Feb 2022
[READ ONLY] Subtree split of the Illuminate Support component (see laravel/framework)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:265 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on improving the code base of the Illuminate Support component by implementing shorter syntax, removing useless "use" statements, and adding doc block function signatures. They also enabled dot notation for `array_add` and enhanced the Collection class by adding a `flip()` function. Furthermore, the user moved several `array_*` helper functions to the `Arr` class, and added the `array_has` function. The majority of their work involved refactoring and extending the existing functionality of the library.
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