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.
11 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 (68)
postgresql10
python10
vertex-ai10
javascript10
chatgpt10
crm10
llmops10
ai10
conversational-ai10
monorepo10
azure10
rust10
salesforce10
typescript10
load-balancing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Chainlit/cookbook
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Chainlit's cookbook repo
Contributions:64 reviews, 67 PRs, 143 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Chainlit/literalai-typescript
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:9 releases, 10 reviews, 20 PRs in 6 months
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