GAËL DEMETTE ============ Lead developer & mentoring Essonne, France From PHP to Rust by way of Node and Vue/Nuxt: hands-on throughout. Trainer of engineers at BSc and MSc level. - https://gael-demette.fr/en/cv/lead-dev - 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. Rust · Nix · Kubernetes · Gitlab · Open Source · Management · Budget management · Vendor management · Project management · Pulumi · Deno · VueJS/Nuxt · PostgreSQL · Redis · TypeScript · Linux 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. Pulumi · Vendor management · Rust · Python · Linux · 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. [NodeJS, 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. - 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. [NodeJS, ReactJS, MongoDB] - E-commerce platform — InVivo : A roughly six-month e-commerce engagement. Vendor management · Project management · Kubernetes · Terraform/OpenTofu · Gitlab · Github · Support · Budget management · Management · Training · Remote work · Open Source · VueJS/Nuxt · PostgreSQL · Redis · ArangoDB · Directus · TypeScript · Linux · 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. - 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. NodeJS · Gitlab · EmberJS · Management · Budget management · Recruitment · Project management · MongoDB · Training · Linux 2015-09 > 2016-01 - Lead Developer @ Adrenaline Hunter - Built a new product with Symfony. - Technical coordination with the product and marketing teams. PHP · Github 2014-01 > 2018-12 - Self-employed and freelancer - Training for engineers BAC +3 to BAC +5 (Java EE and Web) Training · MySQL · NodeJS · PHP · PrestaShop · Github · Remote work 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. [Zend Framework, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PHP] MongoDB · PHP · Zend Framework · Github · Open Source · 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. Coaching · Mentoring 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, NodeJS, ReactJS, EmberJS, PHP, PrestaShop, Python, Zend Framework System administration Linux, Nix, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu Project management tools Gitlab, Directus, Github Soft skills Agile, Budget management, Coaching, Management, Mentoring, Microservices, Observability, Open Source, Project management, Recruitment, Remote work, Support, TDD, Training, 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. LANGUAGES --------- - French — native language - English — technical Last update, Sep 2026