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Gaël Demette

Technical leadership & team building

Two terms as president, including Qonfucius at up to 14 staff and ~€1M revenue. Recruitment, budgets, vendors, audits.

Essonne, France

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A technical director of 33. I built an engineering team from zero to fourteen, fully remote, and led it for seven years.

I believe in empowering teams, betting on trust, competence and a dose of good communication. Technical leadership, to me, is mostly about creating the conditions in which capable people decide well.

My interests are software architecture, automation and cybersecurity. I arbitrate knowing the cost of what I am asking for.

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Presidentadnap

Mission-driven company in the social and solidarity economy. Technical leadership of the company. Support for digital sovereignty

  • Infrastructure and cost optimisationAroma Zone

    Six months on transverse concerns: monitoring, infrastructure cost reduction, GCP and Azure.

  • Safeguarding reports platformFrench social affairs ministries

    Support for regional health agencies tracking reports concerning vulnerable adults.

RustNixKubernetesGitlabConsultingOpen SourceManagementBudget managementVendor managementProject managementPulumiDenoVueJS/NuxtPostgreSQLRedisTypeScript

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CTOCashway

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.

PulumiVendor managementRustObservability

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PresidentQonfucius

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
  • e-ChauffeurFrench 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/NuxtMongoDB

  • Transverse DevOps infrastructureFrench Ministry of Armed ForcesLead DevOps

    Deployed the incubator's software onto in-house infrastructure hosted at Scaleway, and supported the development teams.

  • carrefour.fr rebuildCarrefour

    A roughly six-month engagement rebuilding the site.

  • Incubateur des TerritoiresANCTLead Tech

    Deployed the incubator's software onto infrastructure hosted at Scaleway, and supported the project teams.

  • Offline cloudFrench Ministry of Armed Forces

    Evaluation, benchmark and proof of concept for a cloud offering that runs disconnected from the internet.

  • StargateFrench Ministry of Armed Forces

    Access management for defence bases. A CI pipeline producing a self-contained archive, for deployment with no internet connection.

    MongoDB

  • E-commerce platformInVivo

    A roughly six-month e-commerce engagement.

ConsultingVendor managementProject managementKubernetesTerraform/OpenTofuGitlabGithubSupportBudget managementManagementRemote workOpen SourceVueJS/NuxtPostgreSQLRedisDirectusTypeScriptObservabilityAgileMicroservicesTDD

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CTOHungryUp

  • 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.

GitlabManagementBudget managementRecruitmentProject managementMongoDB

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Lead DeveloperAdrenaline Hunter

  • Built a new product with Symfony.
  • Technical coordination with the product and marketing teams.

Github

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Self-employed and freelancer

GithubRemote work

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Homework support

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

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MemberMouvement Impact France

Member of the social and solidarity economy interest group.

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Volunteer MemberRéseau 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.

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Volunteer Trainerassociation "Le lien : l'informatique & nous"

  • Training people affected by digital illiteracy.
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Master of Science

Supinfo — Paris, Tour Montparnasse

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

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Bachelor of Science

Supinfo — Paris, Tour Montparnasse

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

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

IRIS — Paris XVII

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

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

IRIS — Paris XVII

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

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Prevention and Civic Rescue (PSC)

Fédération Nationale de Protection Civile

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