Summary
Gildas Chabot is a backend software engineer with 10 years’ experience building scalable systems in Go, combining strong foundations in algorithms, architecture and product thinking. He helped decompose a large legacy C monolith into Go microservices at Leboncoin and later contributed to distributed systems at DeepMind and Google. His background in biometrics and embedded ARM work at Zwipe gives him a rare mix of low-level performance optimisation and high‑level service design. Valedictorian in engineering school with formal training in security and electronic banking, he brings rigorous, measured approaches to reliability and payment workflows. Based in London, he favors pragmatic, well-architected solutions that balance developer velocity with long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree: 2nd year, Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor's degree: 2nd year, Mathematics and Physics at Classe préparatoire Lycée Chateaubriand
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, specialized in Electronic Banking, Computer Security and Biometrics, Valedictorian/Dux/Major de promotion (ranked number 1 after the final exams), Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, specialized in Electronic Banking, Computer Security and Biometrics, Valedictorian/Dux/Major de promotion (ranked number 1 after the final exams) at Ecole nationale supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen
English, French