Thomas Wilgenbus
Lead Backend Engineer at Pivot
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolThomas Wilgenbus is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Paris with 12 years of experience building data-intensive platforms, customer-facing APIs, and scalable backend systems. He blends strong analytical rigor and a passion for architecture and functional programming with hands-on leadership, having led engineering teams at Ledger and now driving backend at Pivot. Colleagues know him as a communicative, quality-focused innovator who invests time in research and testing to select the right technology for business needs. He thrives at the intersection of team collaboration and tooling, regularly shipping infrastructure and developer-facing tools that reduce operational friction. His background spans data engineering, R&D in IoT and big data, and performance-driven migrations—from NoSQL rollouts to large dataset moves—showing a pragmatic approach to solving complex systems problems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBaccalauréat Science - Opt Maths, Baccalauréat Science - Opt Maths at collège Henri de Navarre, Lycée George SandMaster's degree Game Development and Conception, Master's degree Game Development and Conception at Keimyung University
French, English, Japanese, German, Korean
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Github Skills (78)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
regnarock/neon_defense
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
regnarock/brisbane
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR in 1 year 5 months
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