Olivier Balais
CTO at Semji
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolOlivier Balais is a seasoned CTO and software architect with 14 years of experience building and scaling web products, currently leading R&D and technical teams at Semji from Lyon. He combines hands-on full‑stack development (PHP, JS) and DevOps instincts (Docker, virtualization) with strategic product and roadmap leadership, managing cross-functional teams and >€1M annual budgets. His background includes progressively senior technical leadership roles where he introduced CI, code review, containerized development environments and semantic versioning to improve delivery quality. Known for fostering innovation, he runs prototyping and research efforts to translate new ideas into production-ready features. Practical and detail-oriented, he blends deep engineering craft with people management and hiring experience across startups and mid-size SaaS companies.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer Information Technologies, Software Engineer Information Technologies at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonDUT Information Technologies, DUT Information Technologies at IUT A, Lyon University 1
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Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
postgresql10
google-news10
prompt-engineering10
ember10
llama-index10
monitoring10
javascript10
algolia10
browser10
llmops10
google-search10
gpt10
database10
rich-text10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
semji/queue-client
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
PHP library providing queue abstraction layer (AWS SQS, File, Memory, ...)
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 11 months
awsphp-library
semji/queue-client-bundle
Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
An easy way to use queue client library in Symfony project with his own Symfony bundle.
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 9 months
symfonysymfony-bundle
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