Curriculum vitaeTechnical leadership

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

Professional experience
6
Volunteering & commitments
4
My skills
28
Education
4
Certifications
1
Languages
2

Last update, Sep 2026

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.

Since Mar 2025 - President @ adnap

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

Since Jan 2025 - CTO @ Cashway

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

Feb 2018 > Mar 2025 - President @ Qonfucius

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

Apr 2016 > Jan 2018 - CTO @ HungryUp

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

Sep 2015 > Jan 2016 - Lead Developer @ Adrenaline Hunter

Lead DeveloperAdrenaline Hunter

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

Github

Jan 2014 > Dec 2018 - Self-employed and freelancer @

Self-employed and freelancer

GithubRemote work

Since Jan 2026 - Homework support @

Homework support

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

Sep 2021 > Jan 2025 - Member @ Mouvement Impact France

MemberMouvement Impact France

Member of the social and solidarity economy interest group.

May 2021 > Jan 2025 - Volunteer Member @ Réseau Entreprendre 91

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.

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

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

  • Training people affected by digital illiteracy.
  • French, native language
  • English, technical

Sep 2014 > Sep 2016 - Master of Science at Supinfo (Paris, Tour Montparnasse)

Master of Science

Supinfo — Paris, Tour Montparnasse

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

Sep 2013 > Sep 2014 - Bachelor of Science at Supinfo (Paris, Tour Montparnasse)

Bachelor of Science

Supinfo — Paris, Tour Montparnasse

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

Sep 2011 > Sep 2013 - BTS Information Technology Services for Organizations (S.I.O.) Option Software Solutions and Business Applications at IRIS (Paris XVII)

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.

Sep 2008 > Sep 2011 - Professional Baccalaureate in Electronic and Digital Systems (S.E.N.) Option Telecommunications and Networks at IRIS at IRIS (Paris XVII)

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.

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

Prevention and Civic Rescue (PSC)

Fédération Nationale de Protection Civile

  • French, native language
  • English, technical

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