# Nicolas Garnier

> Nicolas Garnier is a New York-based product leader and self-taught developer best known for leading MJML, the open-source framework that turns concise markup into responsive email HTML. After nearly six years at Mailjet and Mailgun, where he rose to lead product and strategy, he worked in product at Gorgias, Treat and Primary Venture Partners before joining Canary Technologies. His career follows a consistent idea: take a technically awkward system and make it easier for ordinary teams to use.

- **Role:** Product at Canary Technologies
- **Organizations:** Canary Technologies, Primary Venture Partners, Treat, Gorgias, Mailgun, Mailjet, MJML, Microsoft, Sensorpro
- **Education:** Master's degree in business and marketing, Audencia Business School
- **Known for:** Led MJML after its February 2016 open-source release; the repository has accumulated more than 18,000 GitHub stars., Advanced from developer relations to leading product and strategy during nearly six years at Mailjet and Mailgun., Helped articulate and launch Mailjet's collaboration toolkit for teams creating and approving email campaigns.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Began working in developer relations, creating a bridge between his business training, self-taught programming and developer communities.
- **2014** — Completed a developer-relations internship at Microsoft.
- **2015** — Joined Mailjet's developer-relations team and worked with its API ecosystem and developer community.
- **2016** — Took charge of MJML after Mailjet released the responsive-email framework as open source in February.
- **2017** — Published a detailed MJML tutorial in Smashing Magazine and continued representing the project publicly.
- **2018** — As a Mailjet product manager, publicly explained the research behind the company's email collaboration toolkit.
- **2020** — Left Mailjet after nearly six years, having progressed to leading product and strategy through growth, a move to New York and an acquisition.
- **2021** — Worked as a senior product manager at Gorgias and became a non-executive strategic advisor to Sensorpro.
- **2022** — Joined ecommerce startup Treat to build its product.
- **2022-2024** — Worked on product and new-company creation connected with Primary Venture Partners.
- **Current** — Works in product at Canary Technologies in New York; a public org chart lists him as Lead Product Manager.

## Achievements

- Led MJML after its February 2016 open-source release; the repository has accumulated more than 18,000 GitHub stars.
- Advanced from developer relations to leading product and strategy during nearly six years at Mailjet and Mailgun.
- Helped articulate and launch Mailjet's collaboration toolkit for teams creating and approving email campaigns.
- Published technical guidance on responsive email development in Smashing Magazine.
- Served as a non-executive strategic advisor to email-marketing company Sensorpro.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — His GitHub profile identifies his current work as product at Canary Technologies in New York.
- **2025-06** — He amplified news of Canary Technologies' $80 million Series D and the company's expansion of guest-facing hotel technology.

## Links

- Website: https://medium.com/@Nico_g
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicogarnier
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Nico_g
- GitHub: https://github.com/ngarnier

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Last updated: 2026-09-28