Clément Salaün
Co-Founder at Formance (YC S21)
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolClément Salaün is a Paris-based software leader and co-founder with 12 years of experience, currently building infrastructure at Formance (YC S21). He specializes in payments and backend architecture, having led a Stripe Connect migration and built a payments platform that handles millions of euros in cash‑in and cash‑out. He's experienced in migrating monoliths to microservices and designing resilient stacks using Elasticsearch, CouchDB, AWS and Docker. Product-minded and quality-driven, he prefers small, efficient teams and ships APIs and apps people enjoy using. As an investor and former lead engineer at Selency, and with roots in architectural studies plus Y Combinator, he combines design sensibility, technical depth and startup operator instincts.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
French, English
Github Skills (172)
elastic-stack10
opensearch10
api-client10
command-line-interface10
cryptocurrency10
elasticsearch10
rest-api10
visualizations10
rendering10
ledger10
api10
sdk10
rest10
cli10
search-engine10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
altitude/fileboom
Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 7 months
selency/amqp-publish
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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