Ronan Guilloux
Global Vice-President, Solutions Engineering at MACH Alliance
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolRonan Guilloux is a seasoned solutions engineering leader with 15 years of experience, currently serving as Global Vice‑President of Solutions Engineering at Akeneo, where he scaled presales from the first $1M ARR onward. He combines hands‑on engineering roots—contributing to notable open‑source projects like Faker and Ladda—with strategic leadership in go‑to‑market and developer ecosystems. Based in Nantes, he blends technical depth across backend and frontend stacks with a track record of building and coaching high‑performing global presales teams. Active in industry bodies such as the MACH Alliance and PreSales Collective, he shapes best practices for modern composable architectures and PreSales leadership. Outside corporate life he pursues eclectic interests from bagpipe accreditation to open‑source tinkering since 1998, reflecting a long‑standing curiosity for craft and community.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Italian language art and culture courses, Italian language art and culture courses at Centro Internazionale Giorgio La Pira, FirenzeBSc Degree Computer Science, BSc Degree Computer Science at Université de Caen NormandieScottish Qualifications Authority’s SCQF Highland Bagpipe, Scottish Qualifications Authority’s SCQF Highland Bagpipe at The National Piping Centre, GlasgowLeadership & Management, Leadership & Management at Harvard OnlineGreat Demo! Certified Practitioner, Great Demo! Certified Practitioner at The DemoScene
Arabic, French, English, Russian, Italian, breton
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
svn10
php10
localization10
payment-processing10
form-validation10
command-line10
data-validation9
phpunit9
html9
documentation8
ui-design8
ux-design8
videojs6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brownbaglunch/BrownBagLunch
Sep 2013 - Feb 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ronan primarily contributed to updating and adding content to the `baggers.js` file. The commit messages suggest the addition of new conference presentations and updates to existing session information, likely for a conference listing application. These changes involve modifying and expanding a data structure (likely JSON) containing session details, speaker information, and associated tags, suggesting back-end focus in data organization and content management.
fzaninotto/Faker
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 27 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ronan primarily contributed to adding and refining country-specific VAT number generation for various locales. They integrated SWIFT/BIC payment type functionality, which involved adding a new method and fixing a minor typo. Additionally, they made improvements to image handling by making the image() function more compatible with different operating systems. They also focused on documentation through README and phpDoc updates.
factorytestingphpdummy-datafaker
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