Julien Bourdeau

Senior Software Engineer
Nantes, France
julienbourdeau@hey.com
+336.49.74.43.64
15 years of working experience in Software Engineering. In the last few years, I worked mostly on log processing and billing matter, with Ruby on Rails, PostgresQL and recently with Laravel. I like working close to customers.

Work Experience

Sr. Software Engineer

TBC

TBC

Sr. Software Engineer

Lago

2024 - Current
  • Maintaining open source billing software built on Ruby on Rails with 5-15 dev team
  • My work: https://github.com/getlago/lago-api/pulls/julienbourdeau

Sr. Software Engineer

Algolia

2017 - 2024

Billing / Log Processing / Usage metering (Ruby On Rails/Go/k8s/GCP) - 2019 - 2024

  • Ingesting and processing TB of logs per day to compute time series for billing purposes using Go.
  • Reduced a pipeline processing time from 8min to 15sec, by migrating to BigQuery.
  • Implemented a new pricing strategy end-to-end (invoicing, frontend, Stripe).
  • Managed all auth-related features (OAuth, SAML, JWT, API keys).
  • Implemented new pricing strategy (invoicing, frontend, Stripe).

 

Integrations (open source SDKs) - 2017 - 2019

  • Maintained various Integration and SDKs: Ruby on Rails, WordPress, Magento, Laravel, Symfony, Python.
  • Answered over 1200 customer support requests over the years.

Full Stack Software Engineer

PrestaShop

2014 - 2017

Maintained the open source ecommerce software PrestaShop (PHP)

Skills

Languages
English: Fluent - French: Native
Languages and Frameworks
Ruby on Rails, Go, Kubernetes TypeScript, Laravel (PHP), React, Vue.js
Tooling
PgSQL, Git, RFC, BigTable, BigQuery, Redis, AWS. GCP, CircleCI, Terraform, DataDog

Education

Master of Science

City University of Hong Kong

Major in Multimedia Technologies. Done as “double diploma”.

2011 - 2012

Master of Science

ESEO

Major in IT (BAC+5 - CTI approved engineering degree)

2006 - 2011