Gaël Destrem
Software Engineer at Lazy app
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolGaël Destrem is a seasoned full‑stack JavaScript engineer with 11 years of experience building and shipping customer‑facing web products and SaaS. He founded and bootstrapped Churni, a retention-focused product that combines cancellation flows, analytics and automated interventions to reduce subscription churn, and has hands‑on experience across product design, growth marketing and serverless architectures. Gaël has deep practical experience with React/Typescript, Node.js and Elasticsearch, and has driven platform improvements and design system implementations for public‑sector projects like beta.gouv.fr. He was an early product developer at GitBook, owning billing, imports/exports and mentoring junior engineers, and has a track record of launching independent products that attracted organic audiences. Based in Lyon, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with pragmatic engineering and a knack for turning user feedback into measurable product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Networks and telecommunications, DUT, Networks and telecommunications at IUT Annecy (Université de Savoie)Master's Degree, IT Methods Applied to Business Management, Master's Degree, IT Methods Applied to Business Management at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
French, English
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Github Skills (88)
des10
css9
markdown-it9
chrome9
nodejs9
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javascript8
markdown8
parser8
firebase8
wysiwyg8
docker8
parse8
reverse-proxy7
golang7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lazy-app/lazyQAArm
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 1 branch, 8 tags in 2 years 4 months
Aldok/gaeldestrem
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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