Thomas Payet
Co-founder && COO at Meilisearch
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarThomas Payet is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as COO of Meilisearch, an open-source, high-performance search engine he has helped build and refine since 2018. With 11 years of experience spanning backend engineering, documentation, and product operations, he blends hands-on development—tuning tokenizers, error handling, and HTTP/database defaults—with strategic oversight of product and community. Previously an R&D developer at vente-privee and a software engineer at TECH'4'TEAM, he brings enterprise-grade rigor to startup-scale execution. Based in Paris, he pairs technical depth in search and web systems with a knack for improving developer UX and SEO across docs and front-end interfaces. Notably, his contributions touch both core engine behavior and the public-facing documentation, reflecting a rare full-stack commitment to developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
markdown10
search-engine10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
vuepress10
markdown-it10
api10
rust10
full-text-search10
backend10
documentation10
databases9
error-handling9
database9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
meilisearch/documentation
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Meilisearch documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Frontend Developer
Technical Writer & Frontend DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 136 commits, 91 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on improving the documentation for the Meilisearch project. Their contributions involved adding and modifying documentation pages, including guides and API references. They also made updates to the website's structure and UI, such as adding navigation elements, updating links, and adding a button component. In addition, the user implemented features such as adding a sitemap generator and integrating SEO plugins.
vuepressmeilisearch
meilisearch/meilisearch
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 28 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on back-end modifications, including updating default database and HTTP server settings within the application's core logic. They added a character for tokenizer separation, demonstrating a strong understanding of the underlying search engine's functionality. The user made updates to error handling and the web interface.
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