# Yves Le Maout

> Yves Le Maout is a New York-based founding engineer at MotherDuck whose career runs from prime-brokerage risk systems at BNP Paribas to engineering leadership at STOIC and the hybrid local-cloud architecture behind MotherDuck. His public record shows a hands-on engineer who became a technical leader without surrendering his appetite for difficult systems, practical experimentation, or the human details of how teams ship software.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at MotherDuck
- **Organizations:** MotherDuck, STOIC (Sutoiku, Inc.), BNP Paribas
- **Education:** Master of Science in Computer Sciences, ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Master 2 in Financial and Economic Risks, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux 4
- **Known for:** Rose from software engineer to CTO and VP of Engineering during nearly nine years at STOIC., Helped found the engineering team at MotherDuck and build its DuckDB-based cloud service., Co-presented MotherDuck's cloud architecture at DuckCon 2023.

## Career timeline

- **2009-2010** — Worked as a Financial Risk IT engineer on BNP Paribas's Prime Brokerage IT team.
- **2011-2013** — Served as an IT Technical Leader in the BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage IT team.
- **2013** — Became an Assistant Vice President at BNP Paribas, working on stabilization, optimization, and real-time risk feeds.
- **2013-2017** — Joined STOIC as a software engineer, working across Node.js and C++ services, AngularJS, DevOps, data curation, and integrations.
- **2017-2022** — Led STOIC's engineering organization as CTO and VP of Engineering for progressive data analytics.
- **2022-present** — Joined MotherDuck as a founding engineer, helping build a serverless analytics service around DuckDB.
- **2023** — Co-presented 'MotherDuck: What does it take to put DuckDB in the Cloud?' with Boaz Leskes at DuckCon in Brussels.
- **2024** — Co-authored the CIDR paper 'MotherDuck: DuckDB in the cloud and in the client,' describing hybrid query processing and the service's architecture.

## Achievements

- Rose from software engineer to CTO and VP of Engineering during nearly nine years at STOIC.
- Helped found the engineering team at MotherDuck and build its DuckDB-based cloud service.
- Co-presented MotherDuck's cloud architecture at DuckCon 2023.
- Co-authored a CIDR 2024 paper on MotherDuck's hybrid local-cloud query processing architecture.
- Led a fully remote engineering team at STOIC, with former colleagues publicly crediting his delivery discipline, technical breadth, and ability to unblock others.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Shared MotherDuck demonstrations focused on turning prompts into scheduled data pipelines and interactive answers.
- **2026-07** — Shared MotherDuck's FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Tracker from the company's Dive Gallery.
- **2024-01** — Was listed as a co-author of the CIDR 2024 paper describing MotherDuck's hybrid query execution architecture.

## Links

- Website: https://about.me/y.lemaout
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yveslemaout
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Last updated: 2026-09-28