Willy Douhard
Co-founder & CTO at Twill
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWilly Douhard is a founder and CTO with 10 years of experience building production AI and web systems, currently leading Twill after co-founding Chainlit and Literal AI. He blends enterprise-grade machine learning practice from C3 AI with hands-on engineering, shipping open-source tooling for conversational AI and developer workflows. Willy’s background spans frontend performance optimizations to ML deployment, evidenced by earlier work delivering 60 FPS UIs, offline-capable PWAs, and matching algorithms for resume scoring. Based in San Francisco, he’s passionate about generative AI, observability, and pragmatic open-source innovation, and actively develops projects under github.com/willydouhard and TrySummon. Colleagues know him for moving rapidly from prototype to production while keeping developer ergonomics and observability front and center.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate degree, Computer Science, Diplômé, Associate degree, Computer Science, Diplômé at Institut National de Formation et d'Application
English, French
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Github Skills (47)
chatgpt10
python10
langchain10
llm10
openai10
gateway10
llmops10
azure-openai10
vertex-ai10
anthropic10
checker9
application9
type-checking8
data-structures8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Chainlit/chainlit
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Build Conversational AI in minutes ⚡️
Contributions:117 releases, 556 reviews, 707 PRs in 1 year 10 months
chatgptlangchainllmopenaiopenai-chatgpt
Chainlit/cookbook
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Chainlit's cookbook repo
Contributions:63 reviews, 66 PRs, 143 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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