Alienor Latour

Aliénor Latour is the CTO of Skipr and has been a Go developer since 2017, with experience in various domains, from social media marketing to satellite imagery and e-commerce. Through the course of her career, she tried her skills as a frontend developer and as a project manager, and enjoyed her role as technical leader and software architect before her current managing position, all the while reaching for quality and simplicity in her software.

Aliénor is known for her refactoring and decoupling perseverance and pushes for clean and maintainable architecture in Go. She strives for more diversity in tech, in particular in backend roles, and likes to share her values by mentoring junior developers and speaking at international conferences.

Outside of work hours, she travels Europe from Burgundy for Scottish country dance events, knits, sews skirts with pockets, and reads about linguistics and sociology.

books by Alienor Latour

Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects

  • May 2025
  • ISBN 9781633438804
  • 512 pages
  • printed in black & white

Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects introduces the most important features, concepts and techniques of the Go programming language. You’ll learn hands on as you build fun mini projects including a Wordle clone you can run as a web service and a maze solver that uses goroutines. Along the way, you’ll explore a wide range of topics, including Go’s unique approach to interfaces, concurrency, REST and gRPC microservice APIs, and more.