About

Julien Avezou

Software Engineer · Toronto, Canada

Thinking engineer building systems, products, and workflows for the AI era. Previous experience in Fintech.

LinkedIn · GitHub · Dev.to · Substack

Highlights

  • Key architect and developer of a system at Klarna to proactively verify millions of customers, leading to improved UX and huge cost savings
  • Built and launched multiple applications independently
  • Focused on reflection systems and engineering judgment in the age of AI

Technical Skills

JavaScript / TypeScriptReact / React Native / Next.jsNode.jsSupabasePostgreSQLRedisVercelAWSDockerKubernetesJenkinsTerraformRuby / Ruby on RailsKafkaReduxGitSentryAI workflows / LLM tooling

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Klarna · 2021 — 2025
  • Key architect and developer of a system at Klarna to proactively verify millions of customers, leading to improved UX and huge cost savings
  • Built critical flows to allow customers to safely recover access to their Klarna Balance account (remote dynamic linking, letter send outs)
  • Helped design and implement a new onboarding flow for the Klarna Balance product, increasing the product’s conversion rates by 4%

Software Engineer - Freelance

JLG · 2020 — 2021
  • Conceived and developed a planning tool web application contracted for a top architecture firm in Belgium
  • Worked in a team of 3 devs in order to respect the roadmap planned out in terms of feature releases

Projects

Jots

Developer-centric journaling and reflection app (AI-assisted).

Stack: Ruby on Rails · React · Heroku

ReflectionCLI

CLI Tooling that helps add reflection to your development workflow

Stack: Next.js

Writing

Ship AI in your engineering stack without the chaos

Key learnings and tips to build applications with LLMs.

Why Learning Basic Robotics Made Me a Better Software Engineer in the Age of AI

Sharing my thoughts on how learning robotics has been valuable for my developer journey, especially in this age of AI.

Learnings from a Klarna Engineer on feature development

Sharing key learnings from working on feature development at Klarna.

See all writing here.


Hobbies & Fun Facts

  • Building in public (products + writing)
  • Running (ran Paris and Berlin Marathons)
  • Reading
  • Scuba Diving
  • Kayaked around Corsica in 30 days