Thomas Poignant
Chief Technology Officer at Gens de Confiance
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Poignant is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 16+ years in software engineering and a decade of senior leadership, now serving as CTO in Paris. He has led large cross-functional teams (up to ~50 people) at Adevinta and Leboncoin, delivering high-throughput moderation, search, and account platforms that process millions of objects monthly. Technically fluent across Go, Python, Java/Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes and Kafka, he combines architecture, DevOps and product-minded delivery to move MVPs into industrialized, self-service platforms. Creator of the open-source go-feature-flag project and an OpenFeature TC member, he brings practical OSS experience in feature management and experimentation. Known for driving migrations at scale (e.g., ~54M account migration) and reducing operational friction, he blends pragmatic engineering with strong stakeholder and people management.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MASTER Miage Informatique, MASTER Miage Informatique at IFSIC RennesDUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at IUT Informatique Lannion
French, English
Stackoverflow
127reputation
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Github Skills (9)
testing10
feature-flags10
go10
netbeans6
rest6
mocking6
database6
spring-boot6
java6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
thomaspoignant/go-feature-flag
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
GO Feature Flag is a simple, complete and lightweight self-hosted cloud native feature flag solution 100% Open Source — built on OpenFeature 🎛️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:229 releases, 372 reviews, 693 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas appears to be involved in the initial development of the "go-feature-flag" project. The commits initialize the project, including the creation of test files for the variation logic. These changes suggest a focus on setting up the core functionality and test coverage for the feature flag solution. The work concentrates on the initial design and structure of the project.
cloud-nativegofeature-flagsfeature-togglesfeature-flag
thomaspoignant/scim2-parse-filter
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
RFC7643 SCIM(System for Cross-domain Identity Management) 2.0 filter parser.
Contributions:18 releases, 38 reviews, 44 commits in 2 years 11 months
identity-managementparser
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