Thomas Poignant is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 16+ years in software engineering and a decade of senior leadership, now serving as CTO in Paris. He has led large cross-functional teams (up to ~50 people) at Adevinta and Leboncoin, delivering high-throughput moderation, search, and account platforms that process millions of objects monthly. Technically fluent across Go, Python, Java/Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes and Kafka, he combines architecture, DevOps and product-minded delivery to move MVPs into industrialized, self-service platforms. Creator of the open-source go-feature-flag project and an OpenFeature TC member, he brings practical OSS experience in feature management and experimentation. Known for driving migrations at scale (e.g., ~54M account migration) and reducing operational friction, he blends pragmatic engineering with strong stakeholder and people management.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MASTER Miage Informatique, MASTER Miage Informatique at IFSIC Rennes
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at IUT Informatique Lannion
GO Feature Flag is a simple, complete and lightweight self-hosted feature flag solution 100% Open Source. 🎛️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:213 releases, 339 reviews, 693 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas appears to be involved in the initial development of the "go-feature-flag" project. The commits initialize the project, including the creation of test files for the variation logic. These changes suggest a focus on setting up the core functionality and test coverage for the feature flag solution. The work concentrates on the initial design and structure of the project.
GitHub Action to lint your GO Feature Flag 🏁 configuration file.
Contributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 11 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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Thomas Poignant - Chief Technology Officer at Gens de Confiance