Raphaël Daguenet
Head Of Engineering at Carbon Maps
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolRaphaël Daguenet is a polyglot engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performance, distributed systems from startup to product-market scale. As Head of Engineering at Carbon Maps and co-founder/CEO of PlaceKit, he combines operator-level product insight in geocoding and address autocomplete with hands-on technical execution. At Algolia he grew data ingestion products and the Crawler from early revenue to millions and architected Places to handle an order-of-magnitude growth in requests and customers. He’s comfortable across the stack—data pipelines, GIS, search, real-time systems and frontend UX—and has shipped work that improved both developer-facing docs and end-user autocomplete experiences (notably contributing UI and documentation fixes to the popular algolia/places repo). Based in Paris, he pairs strong people leadership (managing teams of 20+) with a founder’s bias for product-minded engineering and measurable growth. An underrated strength is his pattern of turning technical debt and ops challenges into scalable revenue-driving features.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiqueMajeure Multimédia et Technologies de l'Information, Majeure Multimédia et Technologies de l'Information at Multimedia and Information Technologies specializationBaccalaureat (General Certificate of Examination Advanced Level), Baccalaureat (General Certificate of Examination Advanced Level) at Lycée l'Espérance
French, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
autocomplete10
javascript10
algolia10
documentation10
html9
css8
google-places-api6
google-maps-api6
firebase-realtime-database6
firebase6
android6
rest6
google-maps6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
algolia/places
Mar 2017 - Oct 2020
:globe_with_meridians: Turn any <input> into an address autocomplete
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 55 commits, 95 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Raphaël primarily contributed to documentation updates and the improvement of the user interface for the Algolia Places project. Their work included adding examples, fixing broken links, and clarifying policies related to usage. They also addressed formatting issues and implemented fixes to address bugs such as the display of negative latitude and longitude values and missing flags in country examples. These changes enhanced the user experience and improved the project's documentation.
autocompletealgoliageolocationgeogeocoder
placekit/client-js
Feb 2023 - Oct 2025
PlaceKit official JavaScript client
Contributions:1 release, 12 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 years 8 months
javascriptautocompletegeocodingsdk-js
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