Vincent Pochet
Staff Engineer at Ruby42
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVincent Pochet is a Staff Engineer based in Geneva with 13 years building pragmatic, test-driven Ruby on Rails backends and product-ready systems. As a co-founder of Ruby42 and long-time contributor at Lago—where he moved from Senior Backend Engineer to Staff—he focuses on elegant, simple solutions for complex billing and event-processing challenges, including hands-on work in the open-source Lago metering and usage-based billing project. His background spans fintech (Qonto), event management platforms, and full-stack experience dating back to .NET and PHP, giving him a rare blend of startup pragmatism and engineering discipline. Known for TDD, Scrum and operational thinking, he often couples feature work with infrastructure and debugging improvements (for example adding timestamps and robust error handling to event pipelines).
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Département Télécommunications, Services et Usages, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Département Télécommunications, Services et Usages at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonDUT GTR, Télécommunications et Réseaux, DUT GTR, Télécommunications et Réseaux at Université Savoie Mont Blanc
French, English, Italian
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Github Skills (15)
error-handling10
go10
postgresql9
kafka9
database-management8
billing8
metering8
analytics8
subscribe7
subscriber7
su7
open-source7
sinatra6
omniauth6
ruby6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
getlago/lago
May 2022 - Jul 2026
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐️ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 113 reviews, 178 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Lago project, focusing on event processing and data management. Their work included adding a post-processor for events, implementing error handling mechanisms within the event processing pipeline, and updating the Lago expression library. Furthermore, the user addressed infrastructure-related tasks, such as configuring a test database, and adding a timestamp to failed events for debugging.
paymentsmeteringinvoicesusage-based-billingsubscriptions
getlago/lago-go-client
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Lago Go Client
Contributions:9 releases, 104 reviews, 19 commits in 5 months
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