Yann Klis
Co-founder & CEO at Scalingo
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Summary
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RockstarYann Klis is a seasoned entrepreneur and software leader with 17 years building developer-focused products and platforms, currently co-founder and CEO of Scalingo, a European cloud platform for developers. He combines hands-on engineering roots (founder of Ruby on Rails dev studio Novelys) with product and team leadership, having managed teams up to a dozen people and guided cross-sector digital projects from e-commerce to public sector recruitment platforms. Yann has a track record of scaling platforms and tackling operational challenges—from video and mobility systems to cloud-native developer tooling—while keeping developer experience central. He’s active in regional tech ecosystems, having led Alsace Digitale and La French Tech Strasbourg to grow local startup communities and run participatory events that connect engineers, creatives and customers. Known for a hacker mindset and a taste for organizing unconventional meetups, he blends pragmatic engineering with community-building to accelerate product adoption. Based in Strasbourg, he focuses on making infrastructure simple and delightful for developers across Europe.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
43reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (200)
python10
dnslog10
wake-on-lan10
lxml10
comparable10
scalingo10
xxe10
ssrf10
thunderbird10
django10
tencent10
jsonp10
location10
des10
freeradius10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AlsaceDigitale/geeksonafarm_2015
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 5 months
geeksfarm
Scalingo/kinto-scalingo
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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