# Emile Vauge

> Emile Vauge is the creator of Traefik Proxy and founder and CTO of Traefik Labs, the company established in 2016 as Containous. He wrote Traefik’s first code in 2015 to automate network routing for microservices, then built a business around the open-source project. Formerly CEO, he became CTO in February 2024. In July 2026, he reported 3.5 billion pulls of the official Docker image and 1,000 GitHub contributors. He also created Moonshadow, a browser-based eclipse visibility tool.

- **Role:** Founder & CTO at Traefik Labs
- **Organizations:** Traefik Labs (formerly Containous), Zenika, Lyra Network, Airbus
- **Education:** EFREI - Ecole Française d’Electronique et d’Informatique
- **Known for:** Created the open-source Traefik reverse proxy in 2015., Founded the company that became Traefik Labs in 2016., Led the company as CEO before becoming CTO in 2024.

## Career timeline

- **2006-2009** — Lead developer at Airbus.
- **Before 2016** — Worked as project lead developer at Lyra Network and subsequently as a DevOps consultant at Zenika.
- **2015** — Created Traefik; announced the project on Hacker News on September 22.
- **2016** — Founded Containous, now Traefik Labs.
- **2017** — Announced a €1 million seed round led by Elaia Partners, 360 Capital Partners and Kima Ventures.
- **2020** — Company announced a $10 million Series A led by Balderton Capital in January; rebranded as Traefik Labs in September.
- **2024** — Moved from CEO to CTO on February 1; Sudeep Goswami became CEO.
- **2026** — Reported 1,000 Traefik contributors and 3.5 billion official Docker image pulls in July; publicly introduced Moonshadow in August.

## Achievements

- Created the open-source Traefik reverse proxy in 2015.
- Founded the company that became Traefik Labs in 2016.
- Led the company as CEO before becoming CTO in 2024.
- Traefik reached 1,000 GitHub contributors and 3.5 billion pulls of its official Docker image by July 2026, according to his milestone post.
- Created Moonshadow, a terrain-aware eclipse visibility application that computes in the browser.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Authored a September 14 post introducing Traefik Hub’s Sovereign Trust Plane and arguing for independently verifiable records of AI agent actions.
- **2026-08** — Shared Moonshadow, his browser-based tool for evaluating eclipse visibility against the local terrain, and stated that he lives in the Alps.
- **2026-07** — Reported 1,000 contributors and 3.5 billion official Docker image pulls; welcomed Kangmin Kim and Nándor Kollár as maintainers.

## Links

- Website: https://traefik.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilevauge
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/emilevauge
- GitHub: https://github.com/emilevauge

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Last updated: 2026-10-21