Thibaut Patel
Public API Team Lead at GenerateBanners.com
France
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Top SchoolThibaut Patel is a product-focused software engineer and team lead with 15 years of experience building high-availability APIs, performant web apps, and developer-friendly integrations. Currently leading the Public API team at Photoroom and founder of GenerateBanners.com, he blends hands-on engineering with product intuition to accelerate delivery and improve end-user experiences. He has a strong open-source footprint, contributing to Ghost’s API key and admin features and maintaining tooling like the GScan theme linter. His background spans startups to scale-ups—shipping cross-platform features at Loom, founding Findify, and shaping the Chainlit AI developer platform—across stacks including Node.js, Rust, Python, Next.js and PostgreSQL. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions that reduce operational costs and improve observability, he combines engineering leadership with a bias for action and continuous learning. Fluent in remote collaboration and API-first design, he often experiments in side projects that turn into real products and datasets used by marketers and e-commerce teams.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish civilingenjör degree (master level) Computer Science, Swedish civilingenjör degree (master level) Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyFrench engineering degree (master level) Software Engineering, French engineering degree (master level) Software Engineering at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
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Github Skills (25)
api-rest10
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
user-interface10
api10
front-end-development10
ember10
rest-api10
nodejs10
css9
database-design9
html9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 reviews, 333 commits, 126 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Thibaut made several contributions related to personal tokens, a feature for API key management, by disabling personal tokens for inactive users and adding a user ID to the API keys table. They also added the API endpoints and tests for personal token management within the admin API. Furthermore, the user introduced the ability to remove personal tokens when a user is deleted. Overall, their work focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the Ghost publishing platform's API key system.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
TryGhost/Admin
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
Ghost's admin client
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 78 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Thibaut primarily focused on front-end development within the Ghost admin client. Their contributions involved implementing new features, such as staff access tokens, and enhancing existing functionality by adding user interface components. They also worked on improving the user experience by incorporating features such as a star rating and drag-and-drop image uploads and the management of newsletters.. These changes align with the repository's description as a client-side application for the Ghost platform.
adminjavascriptghost-blogghostember
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