Summary
Bacher Ouro-gnao is a Director of Engineering with 15+ years in software development and a decade of leadership experience building and scaling multi-region teams across Japan and Malaysia. He currently leads ~30 engineers at Guidewire, operating as a servant leader who combines org design, manager-of-managers development, and rigorous delivery discipline to align regional execution with global strategy. As a founder and CTO he re-architected a Ruby on Rails monolith into a cloud-native, multi-language microservices platform with extensive test coverage and CI/CD, demonstrating deep hands-on expertise across frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Prior roles driving frontend migrations and performance improvements show a strong product-focused engineering mindset that spans UX-critical widgets to high-throughput backend systems. Bilingual and culturally fluent in Japanese work contexts, he routinely bridges communication gaps between Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, and global stakeholders. His GitHub motto—follow your heart and do the right thing—reflects a leadership style that values principled engineering and sustainable team growth.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business Administration, Master's degree, Business Administration at Grenoble IAE
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Grenoble INP Esisar
Associate's degree, Web Programming & Web Design, IT Designer, Associate's degree, Web Programming & Web Design, IT Designer at IUT d'Aix Marseille
English, Japanese, French