Summary
Félix Gaudé is the CEO and co-founder of The Hacking Project, a peer-learning coding school he built to make practical programming education free and accessible after teaching himself from an economics background. With a decade of experience spanning product, operations, and teaching roles at beta.gouv.fr, ESSEC and IEP Paris, he blends hands-on technical enthusiasm—particularly for Ruby/Rails and Python—with practical startup and education instincts. He leads a community-driven, Freinet-inspired pedagogy that scales peer mentorship rather than traditional instruction, and has a track record of turning his own learning journey into institutionalized training. Based in Paris, he pairs entrepreneurial rigor from a Master’s in Entrepreneurship with civic-minded product work at beta.gouv.fr, quietly favoring impact over buzzwords.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The_Hacking_Project
University of California San Diego
Master 2, Entrepreneuriat et Projets Innovants, Master 2, Entrepreneuriat et Projets Innovants at Université Paris Dauphine
French, English, Spanish