Fred De Gombert
President at Akeneo: The Product Experience Company
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFred De Gombert is an experienced e-commerce and product information management leader with 12 years in technology and a background in founding and scaling software ventures. As President of Akeneo and its long-time CEO, he has steered the company toward an open-source approach to product experience management while maintaining hands-on strategic and commercial leadership. His earlier roles at Smile and as founder of Manalee demonstrate deep expertise in pre-sales engineering, open-source integrations, and launching product-led businesses. Based in Nantes with an EPITA engineering background, Fred combines technical fluency with proven ability to build partnerships and close major retail deals—an operator who still values product-led innovation and community-driven ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
+5 Computer Science, +5 Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
English, French
Github Skills (16)
information-management10
php10
javascript10
ziggy10
product-management10
pim10
backbonejs10
symfony10
application9
devrel9
akeneo7
raise7
open-source6
edtech6
excel1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akeneo/pim-docs
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
[Community Documentation Repository] The open source Product Information Management (PIM)
Contributions:15 commits, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
edtechinformation-managementbackbonejsproduct-information-managementdevrel
akeneo/pim-community-dev
Jan 2014 - Nov 2019
[Community Development Repository] The open source Product Information Management (PIM)
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 11 months
ziggyinformation-managementjavascriptphpbackbonejs
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