Pierre Larochelle
Engineering Manager, Ads Reporting Experience at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPierre Larochelle is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building data-driven advertising products and leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact. Currently at LinkedIn, he drives Ads Reporting Experience—surfacing ad spend insights, industry benchmarks, and using custom AI agents to explain and optimize campaign performance for new advertisers. He previously led Sponsored Messaging and helped launch Conversational Ads, combining product intuition with strong technical ownership across backend and frontend systems. Earlier roles at Blurb saw him migrate monoliths to microservices and own external APIs, demonstrating a practical knack for platform modernization. Based in San Francisco and trained at Georgia Tech, he pairs compassionate people management with hands-on engineering, often translating complex metrics into clear product stories. Notably, he blends AI-assisted tooling into reporting pipelines—helping teams scale explanations as well as metrics.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (25)
amazon-mws8
python8
ai8
typescript8
harness8
langchain7
mws7
fault-tolerance6
traffic6
amazon5
api5
mws-api4
microservices4
websocket3
distributed-systems3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pierrel/emacs
Apr 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
pierrel/assist
Jun 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:26 reviews, 105 PRs, 442 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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