François Bouet

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Selected Work

Stories from the work. How I've navigated cross-functional challenges, aligned stakeholders, and made hard tradeoffs between engineering and business priorities.

Building the Foundation for Acquisition

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Founding Engineer at Semana

How I took a two-person founding team from idea to 20 paying customers in 3 months, then hired my replacement and handed off a design that's still running today.

Outcome: MVP in 3 months, 20 B2B customers in a year, acquired by Deskbird in 2025

Migrating a Console Nobody Fully Understood

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Software Engineer (de facto Program Lead) at AWS Migration Hub

How I led a platform migration at AWS through legacy code nobody fully understood, stakeholders with competing priorities, and a critical infrastructure gap discovered six weeks before launch.

Outcome: $300K/year infrastructure savings, 50% reduction in on-call incidents