Quentin De Quelen
CEO & Co-founder at Meilisearch
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolQuentin De Quelen is a tech founder and CEO with 11 years of engineering experience, currently leading MeiliSearch to make fast, typo-tolerant search accessible to all. He combines hands-on back-end development and DevOps experience with product leadership, having contributed core functionality and client libraries to the open-source MeiliSearch project. Prior to MeiliSearch he built realtime search features and scalable systems at vente-privee and co-founded Crisp IM, a lightweight, low-cost SaaS live chat platform. Based in Paris, his background blends systems and network administration training with software engineering from 42 and ENSSAT. He’s fluent in building high-performance search APIs and developer tooling—often optimizing for speed and simplicity under tight operational constraints. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-founder who still pushes code into the projects he runs.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
42Ingénieur Informatique multimédia et Réseaux, Ingénieur Informatique multimédia et Réseaux at ENSSATDUT Administration de / administrateur réseaux et systèmes, DUT Administration de / administrateur réseaux et systèmes at IUT Réseau et télécommunications Lannion (Rennes 1)
French, English
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Github Skills (14)
meilisearch10
javascript10
nodejs10
rust10
api10
sdk10
json-serialization10
clientside9
testing9
http-api9
webclient9
apidoc8
database-design8
database-management7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
meilisearch/meilisearch
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 237 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Quentin made several contributions to the Meilisearch project, focusing on back-end development tasks. Their commits include removing assertions, enabling schema de/serialization in JSON format, and creating an example for an HTTP server managing multiple databases, indicating work on core functionalities. The user demonstrated an understanding of database interactions, schema management, and HTTP server design.
instantsearchtypo-tolerancesynonymsgeosearchdatabase
meilisearch/meilisearch-js
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
JavaScript client for the Meilisearch API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 33 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Quentin primarily focused on modifying and updating the JavaScript client for the Meilisearch API. Their contributions included adding and modifying tests, updating the library, refactoring code, and preparing for npm releases. They also worked on restructuring the codebase, and updating documentation, which suggests their involvement in API structure and its documentation. The user also made changes to improve the codebase, including updates to reflect version 0.8.0 of Meilisearch, and updating test files.
api-clientapijavascript-clientjavascriptsdk
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