Gaël Demette

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.

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

CTOCashway

Part-time

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

Vendor management · Observability

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.

• 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.

• E-commerce platformInVivo

  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

CTOHungryUp

• 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

Self-employed and freelancer

Github · Remote work

Homework support

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

MemberMouvement Impact France

Member of the social and solidarity economy interest group.

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.

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

• Training people affected by digital illiteracy.