Sébastien Houzé is a seasoned CTO and builder with 16+ years scaling e-commerce, hospitality tech and SaaS products across startups and corporate environments from Marseille. He combines hands-on expertise in DDD, Event Sourcing, CQRS and distributed systems with pragmatic cloud-native practices (AWS, IaC, serverless) to accelerate small-to-mid-size startups. As an entrepreneur and multiple-time co-founder he has led product-led growth, platform migrations to Kubernetes and high-throughput delivery teams, while also recruiting and coaching technical orgs through rapid growth. He contributes to open-source serverless PHP tooling (notably improving Bref’s Amazon Linux 2 and PHP 8.1 build pipeline), reflecting a low-level operational comfort alongside architecture work. Sébastien also teaches e-commerce, software quality and containerization to bachelor students, blending practical industry lessons into the classroom. His uncommon strength is translating business context into targeted technical levers that measurably boost revenue and operational autonomy.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
electronic computer engineering, electronic computer engineering at ESTE
Contributions:28 reviews, 26 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sébastien focused on improving the build and deployment process of the Bref project, a serverless PHP framework. They added support for Amazon Linux 2 images by modifying Dockerfiles. Contributions included upgrading build libraries (OpenSSL, libssh2, cURL, etc.), and cleaning up the build process by removing unnecessary files. They also implemented the build and publishing of PHP 8.1 docker images and addressed various missing libraries for the Amazon Linux 2 environment.
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Contributions:12 reviews, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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