A blog by a Head of Engineering about tech, open-source, leadership and pretending to have a plan.
Every year, I try to answer a simple question: Did Engineering make the company stronger? Not “did we ship features?”, but “did what we built make users more successful, and make the business more resilient?” In 2025, impact became more visible. We i...
In the open-source world, a contribution from someone outside your team can take many forms: giving feedback, reporting bugs, requesting features, suggesting improvements to the code structure… or directly contributing to the code by opening a pull r...
At Meilisearch, open-source has been part of our DNA since the very beginning, in 2019. We’ve always relied on our open-source community to build and grow our product. Personally, I’ve been at Meilisearch for almost 6 years now. I started as a develo...