About Ugo
For the past year, I have been building my own products from scratch. I designed, developed, launched and monetized 10 web apps solo, including InstantGradient, Mokkit and OpenPreview. Every step was mine: product decisions, design, code, payments, launch and marketing.
Before that, I spent six years as a Python developer, building back-ends, AI applications and data pipelines with companies in several countries.
What I offer:
Building the first version of your product, end to end. You bring an idea, I bring it to life: landing page, full stack web app, payments, deployment, analytics. I work in fixed-scope MVP sprints, so you know the price and the timeline before we start.
I am the right person if you are an early-stage founder or a small team that needs a working v1 in a few weeks. I can also bring value to medium size teams as an Python, Backend, or AI engineer.
Based near Strasbourg and Karlsruhe, working remotely or on-site in the region. I work in English and French.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Spanish
Conversational
Can work on-site
Karlsruhe (up to 20km), Strasbourg (up to 20km), Baden-Baden (up to 30km)
Experience
- Ugo LoobuyckSolo FounderOctober 2025 - Today (9 months)Bühl, GermanyBuilding, launching and monetizing my own web products from idea to revenue. In the last year, I designed, developed and shipped 10 web apps solo, owning every step from product decisions to marketing.🚀 Product & Building🔸 Designed, developed, launched and monetized 10 web apps solo, including InstantGradient (mesh gradient generator), Mokkit (device and screenshot mockup tool) and OpenPreview (dynamic OpenGraph image generator)🔸 Took each product from a vague idea to a live, paying product, scoping features to ship a v1 in a few days🔸 Owned product decisions end to end: what to build, what to cut, and what to build next based on user feedback and data🛠 Full Stack Development🔸 Built full stack web applications front to back (Next.js, React, TypeScript)🔸 Integrated payments and monetization with Stripe (subscriptions, one-time passes, credits)🔸 Deployment, hosting and monitoring (Vercel, Supabase, MongoDB, VPS, Docker Compose)📈 Growth & Monetization🔸 Handled landing pages, SEO, content, social media and paid ad campaigns🔸 Set up pricing and packaging, with most products finding paying customers within weeks of launch🔸 Learned firsthand that building fast is only half the job: distribution, pricing and positioning decide the rest👨💼 Founder Life🔸 Sole owner of every decision, from code to branding to customer support🔸 Self-taught across design, marketing and monetization to ship complete products alone🔸 Now putting this end-to-end experience at the service of early-stage founders and startups who need their first version built fast
- StudiData EngineerEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGFebruary 2025 - October 2025 (8 months)Montpellier, FranceConstruction of data and automation pipelines enabling a strategic partnership between an online school (900 employees) and France Travail, the French national employment agency, as well as data warehouse and data quality projects.🛠 Data & Automation Engineering🔸 Construction of data pipelines collecting candidate data from official France Travail APIs (thousands of student applications, hundreds of thousands of euros in government-funded enrollments)🔸 Development of a company-wide automation system triggering enrollment workflows across multiple teams and services🔸 Contribution to data warehouse projects alongside the main mission🔸 Maintenance and quality improvement of existing pipelines and scripts☁️ Cloud & DevOps🔸 Development and deployment of services on GCP: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Pub/Sub🔸 Containerization of applications with Docker🔸 Continuous integration and deployment with GitLab CI🔸 Creation of monitoring programs and alerting with the Elastic suite📊 Standardization & Data Quality🔸 Mapping and standardization of the entire candidate-to-student pipeline in collaboration with most of the company's services🔸 Coordination of company-wide data sanitization and quality efforts, with strict GDPR and data handling requirements imposed by the government partnership🔸 Standardization of practices across the data team👨💼 Company Life🔸 Member of a data team of 8, under direct supervision of the Head of Data🔸 Cross-team coordination requiring strong communication and soft skills to align technical and non-technical stakeholders
- SEOQuantumBackend EngineerSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGFebruary 2023 - February 2025 (2 years)Development and maintenance of SEO performance audit and automated text generation applications for our clients.🛠 Application Development🔸 Creation and continuous improvement of REST APIs using Python and FastAPI🔸 Development of SEO-focused text generation tools using OpenAI and Anthropic🔸 Creation of a distributed web scraping module using Scrapy, Celery, and Redis🔸 Ongoing maintenance and upgrades of existing systems (Python versions and environments, production application versions, etc.)🛳️ DevOps🔸 Containerization of various applications using Docker🔸 Development of continuous deployment workflows using GitLab CI🔸 Orchestration of the company’s multiple applications using Docker Compose🔸 Maintenance of a Kubernetes cluster using Terraform on OVH📈 Machine Learning🔸 Development of a semantic clustering module using HDBScan🔸 Maintenance of the ML models in use🔸 Creation of a module for embeddings and semantic comparison of web pages
Reviews
Anthony
Seoquantum
Reviewed on 05/03/2024
Travailler avec Ugo a été une expérience remarquable. Au cours de sa mission longue durée axée sur Python, Ugo a démontré un niveau d'implication et de méticulosité qui a largement dépassé nos attentes. Nous sommes reconnaissants pour son apport significatif et n'hésiterions pas à collaborer de nouveau avec lui à l'avenir.
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Education
- Master en traitement automatique du langageUniversité d'Uppsala (Suède)2020Acquired a broad set of skills aimed at automating natural language processing: 🔸 Theoretical and practical foundations of machine learning (Python, PyTorch, Keras) 🔸 Linguistic data management techniques 🔸 Linguistic theory (dependency parsing, constituency parsing, information retrieval, applied philology) 🔸 Mathematics applied to natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning 🔸 Six-month research thesis under the supervision of Professor Joakim Nivre. 🔸 Advanced Python programming techniques (search and sort algorithms, object-oriented programming, natural language processing)