Gawen Arab
Chief Technology Officer & Founder at Airbuds Widget
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolGawen Arab is a polyglot CTO and founder with 32 years of hands-on experience building distributed, embedded and multi-platform systems across startups and product-stage companies. He co-founded Lima (a Kickstarter-backed personal cloud with deep OS integration), led firmware and NLP for the voice-enabled speaker Whyd, and now builds social audio at Airbuds & Cappuccino while freelancing on diverse technical engagements. His toolkit spans backend (Go, Python, Node), systems languages (C/C++, Rust, Zig), mobile platforms, kernel and embedded firmware, and applied NLP—combining low-level engineering with product-focused architecture. Comfortable shipping both hardware-integrated products and cloud-native services, he brings an uncommon blend of cryptography/security design, kernel-level work and consumer-facing app development. Based in Paris, he also brews community-facing audio projects and maintains a curiosity for experimental notebooks and tooling.
32 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Degree Embedded Systems Computer Science, Engineering Degree Embedded Systems Computer Science at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.Baccalauréat Mathematics, Baccalauréat Mathematics at Lycée Jolio CuriUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (162)
programming-language10
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golang10
database10
go10
overlay10
sodium9
cloud-sql9
sdk9
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embedded-database9
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authentication9
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gawen/life
Oct 1993 - Oct 2012
Contributions:76 commits in 19 years 3 months
gawen/pytun
Mar 2012 - Dec 2017
Python tun/tap client
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 10 months
pythontun-taptun
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