Summary
Gael Ollivier is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience now shaping credit-decisioning systems at Stripe. He has a strong full‑stack background, having driven large-scale migrations and architectural overhauls—TypeScript adoption, GraphQL-first architectures, CI/CD and testing strategies, and UI modernizations from Angular to React and Tailwind. Gael excels at turning messy legacy codebases into predictable platforms, building conventions like search/filtering, activity feeds and report builders that enable rapid iteration. His career spans backend systems in Go and Node.js, frontend engineering and real‑time visualizations, informed by formal training in software engineering and computer science. Based in Lake Forest, CA, he balances pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking, often focusing on developer ergonomics and long-term maintainability. An underrated strength is his track record of implementing repeatable patterns that let small teams deliver complex features safely and quickly.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
University of California, San Diego
English, French