# Gaël Demette

Company director, at home in the technical detail

Essonne, France

Two terms as company president, including Qonfucius at up to 14 staff and around €1M revenue. Recruitment, budgets, vendors, partnerships and social-economy commitment.

- https://gael-demette.fr/en/cv/director
- 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.
- Safeguarding reports platform — French social affairs ministries : Support for regional health agencies tracking reports concerning vulnerable adults.

Gitlab · Consulting · Open Source · Management · Budget management · Vendor management · Project management

### Since 2025-01 - CTO @ Cashway

Part-time

- Took over a product with none of its original team available: audit, reverse engineering and written documentation.

Vendor management · Observability

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

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

- Founded to build a team from zero: 14 employees at its peak, low turnover, fully remote from day one, and revenue peaking at around €1M in 2022.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- E-commerce platform — InVivo : A roughly six-month e-commerce engagement.

Consulting · Vendor management · Project management · Gitlab · Github · Support · Budget management · Management · Remote work · Open Source · Directus · Observability · Agile · Microservices · TDD

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

- Very high availability of the application, with zero downtime.
- Led a technical team of fewer than five people.

Gitlab · Management · Budget management · Recruitment · Project management

### 2014-01 > 2018-12 - Self-employed and freelancer

Github · Remote work

## 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

### Project management tools

Gitlab, Directus, Github

### Soft skills

Agile, Budget management, Consulting, Management, Microservices, Observability, Open Source, Project management, Recruitment, Remote work, Support, TDD, Vendor management

## 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