Régis Hanol
Engineering Manager at Discourse
Ponteilla, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolRégis Hanol is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling web platforms from startup to production-grade systems, currently leading engineering at Discourse. He combines hands-on backend expertise—contributing fixes and performance improvements to prominent open-source projects like Discourse and Kitsu—with proven operational chops in CI/CD, on-call, and AWS migrations. His background includes introducing maintenance culture, monitoring and automated deployments, and designing high-throughput media serving and sharded architectures. A former instructor and mentor, he balances team leadership with deep technical work such as query optimizations, serializer refactors, and webhook/email parsing robustness. Based in southern France and self-described as a curious puzzle solver, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to reliability and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at SUPINFOAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at IUT MONTPELLIER-SETE
French, English
Stackoverflow
567reputation
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15answers
5questions
Github Skills (28)
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
webhooks10
rails10
ruby10
api10
activerecord10
postgresql9
animation9
markdown9
email-server9
animate9
sql9
markdown-it9
emailjs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Feb 2013 - Jan 2023
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2156 reviews, 3748 commits, 1207 PRs in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Régis primarily contributed to fixing and improving the display of information related to user activity and data within the Discourse platform. Their work involved implementing solutions for the correct display of links and avatars, specifically addressing issues related to formatting and subfolders. Their contributions also focused on improving the quality of the content by fixing the parsing of the email and better handling different aspects of the various webhooks for different email services, and ensuring that users with a specific status have access to a feature.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
hummingbird-me/kitsu-tools
Apr 2014 - Nov 2014
:hammer: The tools we use to build Kitsu, the coolest platform for anime and manga
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Régis primarily focused on improving the Kitsu backend, addressing issues related to user library management and API performance. They fixed N+1 queries, optimized data retrieval in several controllers, and refactored serializers to improve efficiency. Additionally, they implemented a fix for handling deleted favorites and slightly improved performance in the AnimeController.
kitsuhammerdockerhummingbirdmanga
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