# Gaël Demette

Infrastructure, reliability & digital sovereignty

Essonne, France

Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi and Nix in production. High availability, SLAs and security, incl. French MoD and ANCT.

- https://gael-demette.fr/en/cv/devops
- Email: website.may2025@aka.pand.app
- GitHub: https://github.com/pand-app
- GitLab: https://gitlab.com/pand.app
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaeldemette/
- Malt: https://www.malt.com/profile/gaeldemette
- X: https://x.com/gael_demette
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gael-demette.fr
- Mastodon: https://mastodon.demette.fr/@gael

## Professional experience

### Since 2025-03 - President @ adnap

Mission-driven company in the social and solidarity economy.

Technical leadership of the company.

Support for digital sovereignty

Projects :

- Infrastructure and cost optimisation — Aroma Zone : Six months on transverse concerns: monitoring, infrastructure cost reduction, GCP and Azure. [GCP, Azure]
- Safeguarding reports platform — French social affairs ministries : Support for regional health agencies tracking reports concerning vulnerable adults.

Rust · Nix · Kubernetes · Gitlab · Open Source · Pulumi · Deno · VueJS/Nuxt · PostgreSQL · Redis · Scaleway · GCP · Azure · TypeScript · Linux · Docker

### Since 2025-01 - CTO @ Cashway

Part-time

- Rewrote a production system from Python to Rust, with the scope revised following an audit.
- Took over a product with none of its original team available: audit, reverse engineering and written documentation.
- Built the non-regression metrics that framed the rewrite.

OVH · Pulumi · Disaster management · Security · Rust · Linux · Observability

### 2018-02 > 2025-03 - President @ Qonfucius

Up to 14 employees and ~€1M revenue. Technical leadership of the company.

- Transitional technical leadership
- Worked on the Foncia group's ERP: raising code quality, and taking part in the team's technical debates and trade-offs.
- Audits & consulting

Projects :

- e-Chauffeur — French Ministry of Armed Forces : Real-time tracking of Armed Forces drivers through cellular data tracing, on the model of an Uber without the payment layer. [VueJS/Nuxt, MongoDB]
- Transverse DevOps infrastructure — French Ministry of Armed Forces (Lead DevOps) : Deployed the incubator's software onto in-house infrastructure hosted at Scaleway, and supported the development teams. [Scaleway]
- carrefour.fr rebuild — Carrefour : A roughly six-month engagement rebuilding the site.
- Incubateur des Territoires — ANCT (Lead Tech) : Deployed the incubator's software onto infrastructure hosted at Scaleway, and supported the project teams. [Scaleway]
- Offline cloud — French Ministry of Armed Forces : Evaluation, benchmark and proof of concept for a cloud offering that runs disconnected from the internet.
- Stargate — French Ministry of Armed Forces : Access management for defence bases. A CI pipeline producing a self-contained archive, for deployment with no internet connection. [MongoDB]

Kubernetes · Terraform/OpenTofu · Gitlab · Github · Azure · Continuous Delivery · SLA · Continuous Integration · Support · High Availability · Remote work · Open Source · Security · VueJS/Nuxt · PostgreSQL · Redis · ArangoDB · Scaleway · Directus · TypeScript · Docker · Ansible · Linux · Observability · Agile · Microservices · TDD

### 2016-04 > 2018-01 - CTO @ HungryUp

- Very high availability of the application, with zero downtime.
- System and application architecture, APIs and the critical features, up to a substantial scaling capability.
- Provisioning benches for Android tablets and devices via GenyDeploy; AWS Elastic Beanstalk infrastructure.

Gitlab · AWS · High Availability · SLA · MongoDB · Continuous Delivery · Continuous Integration · Security · Linux · Docker

### 2015-09 > 2016-01 - Lead Developer @ Adrenaline Hunter

- Built a new product with Symfony.

AWS · Github · Continuous Integration

### 2013-09 > 2014-09 - Web Developer @ Webtales

Projects :

- Rubedo : Open-source CMS built on Zend Framework 2, MongoDB and Elasticsearch, with a Big Data slant. An early adopter of MongoDB and of industrialised site delivery, when both were rare. [MongoDB, Elasticsearch]

MongoDB · OVH · Hypervisor · Github · Open Source · Continuous Integration · Elasticsearch

## Volunteering & commitments

### Since 2026-01 - Homework support

Supporting young people with their homework, from primary school to the final year of secondary.

### 2021-09 > 2025-01 - Member @ Mouvement Impact France

Member of the social and solidarity economy interest group.

### 2021-05 > 2025-01 - Volunteer Member @ Réseau Entreprendre 91

Startup mentoring

- Mentored two startups, a construction-industry ERP and a passwordless authentication product, as a sparring partner to surface their blind spots.

### 2010-09 > 2012-09 - Volunteer Trainer @ association "Le lien : l'informatique & nous"

- Training people affected by digital illiteracy.

## My skills

### Development

Rust, Deno, TypeScript, VueJS/Nuxt, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, ArangoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL

### System administration

Linux, Nix, Pulumi, Docker, Kubernetes, Scaleway, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Hypervisor, OVH, AWS, Azure, GCP

### Project management tools

Gitlab, Directus, Github

### Soft skills

Agile, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Disaster management, High Availability, Microservices, Observability, Open Source, Remote work, Security, SLA, Support, TDD

## Education

### Master of Science — Supinfo

2014-09 > 2016-09 — Paris, Tour Montparnasse

Advanced programming (Java, C#), project management, cloud computing, network architecture, cybersecurity.

### Bachelor of Science — Supinfo

2013-09 > 2014-09 — Paris, Tour Montparnasse

Web development (PHP, JavaScript), databases, virtualisation, Linux administration.

### BTS Information Technology Services for Organizations (S.I.O.) Option Software Solutions and Business Applications — IRIS

2011-09 > 2013-09 — Paris XVII

Software development, systems maintenance, database management, networks and telecommunications.

### Professional Baccalaureate in Electronic and Digital Systems (S.E.N.) Option Telecommunications and Networks at IRIS — IRIS

2008-09 > 2011-09 — Paris XVII

Digital electronics, telecom networks, network infrastructure, systems maintenance.

## Certifications

- Prevention and Civic Rescue (PSC) — Fédération Nationale de Protection Civile (2026-02)

## Languages

- French — native language
- English — technical

Last update, Sep 2026