Frank Rousseau
Founder & CEO at CGWire
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Rousseau is a founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building collaboration software for animation, VFX, and game studios. As CEO of CGWire he created Kitsu, an open-source review and production platform used in 30 countries by 300 studios and schools to validate over 10 million assets—contributing to award-winning films and top-played games. He blends hands-on engineering (JavaScript/Vue.js, Python) with product strategy and partnership development, having previously scaled Cozy Cloud from lead developer to CTO and fundraising to €4.8M. Frank’s roots in CG tooling and production management trace back to government-funded HD3D and early work on motion-capture and ECA systems, giving him practical empathy for artists’ workflows. He’s also an active open-source contributor with backend API work on projects like Diaspora, reflecting a privacy-aware, API-first mindset. Based in Greater Paris, he combines deep technical craft with a clear focus on artist-friendly, scalable collaboration that speeds delivery without sacrificing quality.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Bac +5 Computer Science, Master Bac +5 Computer Science at Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityBac Scientifique, Bac Scientifique at Lycée Maurice Ravel
English, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (14)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
rest-api10
rails10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
federated9
distribute9
decentralization9
rspec9
postgresql8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
May 2017 - Dec 2018
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 2 PRs, 41 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Diaspora social network. Their work focused on implementing and adapting API endpoints for conversations and messages, following official specifications. The commits demonstrate their involvement in testing API functionality and adapting tests to recent changes. They also made changes to service-level code, enhancing the unread conversation filtering and API error management.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
cgwire/kitsu-docker
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Dockerfile used to build the trial image of Kitsu
Contributions:144 commits, 26 PRs, 132 pushes in 4 years 6 months
dockerfiledocker-imagedockercgwireanimation
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