Vincent Balat
Head Of Engineering at Tarides
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolVincent Balat is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building web platforms and developer tooling, currently Head of Engineering at Tarides and co-founder/CTO of the Be Sport social network. He is the creator and long-time leader of the Ocsigen project, an influential OCaml-based web framework that informs his deep expertise in functional programming and real-time web systems. His career bridges academia and industry—PhD-trained researcher and former maître de conférences—bringing rigorous research habits to product and engineering decisions. Vincent has founded startups (Xprime) and led teams to productionize novel web technologies, demonstrating an unusual blend of systems-level language design and hands-on product delivery. Based in Greater Paris, he pairs strategic leadership with low-level technical fluency, often shipping features himself while mentoring engineering teams. He also complements his technical background with business training from HEC Paris, making him effective at aligning engineering direction with company strategy.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer science, Master, Computer science at Ecole normale supérieure de LyonPhD, Computer science, PhD, Computer science at Université de ParisMaster, computer science, Élève, Master, computer science, Élève at École Normale Supérieure de CachanChallenge +, Challenge + at HEC Paris
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (77)
mobile-development10
ui-components10
svg10
type-declarations10
webserver10
opam10
javascript10
fibers10
multicore10
package-repository10
mobile-application10
html10
compiler10
database10
git10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ocsigen/eliom
Dec 2014 - Mar 2022
Multi-tier framework for programming web and mobile applications in OCaml.
Contributions:9 releases, 21 reviews, 284 commits in 7 years 4 months
mobile-applicationmulti-tierocamlocsigentierless
ocsigen/lwt
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
OCaml promises and concurrent I/O
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 years 4 months
ocamlconcurencyiofuturesevents
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