Yoann Chaudet
Engineering Manager at GitHub
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoann Chaudet is an experienced engineering manager with a decade-plus track record building and leading teams at GitHub and Microsoft, currently steering the GitHub Pages engineering effort. He combines hands-on mobile and backend engineering—contributing to high-profile repos like Microsoft’s App Center SDK and GitHub Actions starter workflows—with management of production-grade web platform features. Yoann has a strong background in analytics/ingestion systems and dependency maintenance, and he brings rigor to code quality, tests, and CI/DevOps pipelines. Fluent across frontend, mobile, and backend stacks, he also spent early career years launching features and representing product in China, a rare mix of technical depth and cross-cultural product experience.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at INSA RennesMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at IUT Lannion
French, English
Github Skills (24)
objective-c10
github-ci10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
typescript10
android-development10
ruby10
github-pages10
jekyll10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
appcenter10
javascript9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/appcenter-sdk-apple
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Development repository for the App Center SDK for iOS, macOS and tvOS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 62 PRs, 119 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yoann primarily focused on refactoring and fixing formatting issues within the App Center SDK for iOS. The changes involved modifications to the MSDataStore, MSTokenExchange, and MSPaginatedDocuments classes, suggesting work related to the data storage and retrieval functionalities. They brought back and added unit tests, addressing warnings in the codebase. These commits also updated the file headers and added some internal headers.
app-centercenteranalyticsleancloudtvos
github/pages-gem
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 22 reviews, 21 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Yoann primarily focused on maintaining and updating dependencies within the `github/pages-gem` repository. Their work involved bumping various gem versions, including `github-pages-health-check`, and updating `jekyll` to 3.9.2. Additionally, the user made a change to include the UNSAFE option in the commonmark configuration and bumped the gem version repeatedly. These commits indicate a focus on keeping the project's dependencies up to date and configuring specific options.
dependenciesruby-gemsettingsyncjekyll-plugin
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