Paris, France
Hey,
I'm Mohamed Labouardy
Product and technology leader for cloud infrastructure, developer tools and AI. Two-time technical co-founder, one exit. Advising founders and VCs, building AI products.
A little about me
I am a software engineer and entrepreneur living in Paris. Most recently I led product at CloudQuery, following its acquisition of Tailwarden - the open-source cloud infrastructure platform I co-founded. Before that, I was CTO & Co-founder of Crew (YC S21) and the creator of Komiser.
Today I advise infrastructure, devtools and AI founders and the VCs who back them, and I tinker with AI side projects over data that specialists already own. I love developer tools, cloud infrastructure and security products, and I'm the author of four books on AWS, cloud security and FinOps.
Outside of product, I enjoy powerlifting, training for triathlons, and going on bikepacking adventures!
Side projects
Things I build on the side
Small AI experiments outside my day job, all on one idea: put an AI brain on top of the private data a specialist already has, whether that is an athlete's wearables, a travel adviser's black book, or a fund's deal flow.
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KippLive on the App Store
An AI coach for hybrid athletes that checks in first. It reads your wearable overnight and connects training, recovery and nutrition in one conversation.
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Chief of staff for UHNW advisorsDeployed
A private memory layer for luxury travel advisors serving ultra-high-net-worth clients. It reads their own client history, surfaces the opportunities hiding in it, and drafts the next move.
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OS for private equityDeployed
An AI operating system for private-equity funds: deal sourcing, due diligence and portfolio questions over the fund's own data. Deployed at a few PE funds in the EU and New York.
Advisory
Advisor to founders and VCs in infra, devtools & AI
I advise a small number of infrastructure, devtools, and AI startups, and the VCs who back them, on AI product strategy, product & go-to-market, cloud / security / FinOps, technical due diligence, and tech M&A. From working prototype to paying users, and from technical diligence to signed deal.
WORK WITH ME
2025 - 2026
VP of Product @CloudQuery
I joined CloudQuery through its acquisition of Tailwarden and led product for a developer-first cloud governance platform serving Fortune 500 customers in financial services, media and enterprise software.
2022 - 2024
CTO & Co-Founder @Tailwarden
I was part of the founding team of Tailwarden, an open-source cloud governance platform that inventories your cloud assets across providers for visibility into cost, compliance and risk. We raised $2.1M from General Catalyst and Eurazeo, and the company was acquired by CloudQuery in December 2024.
2020 - 2022
CTO & Co-Founder @Crew
I was part of the founding team of Crew.work, a recruiting CRM that automates outbound hiring. Crew was backed by Y
Combinator as part of its YC S21 batch and the French startup studio eFounders. As
the technical co-founder, I built the product and the founding engineering team from zero to launch.
Books
Author
I've written four books: Pipeline as Code and Practical FinOps (Manning), Building Distributed Applications in Gin and Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go (Packt). Together they have sold 50K+ copies.
READ MY BOOKS
Open source & newsletter
Komiser & DevOps Bulletin
I created Komiser, an open-source tool for discovering resources across multiple clouds. It has 4K+ stars on GitHub and 3M+ downloads. I also write DevOps Bulletin, a weekly newsletter on DevOps, FinOps and cloud security and one of the largest in the space.