Summary
Gilles Rasigade is a pragmatic CTO and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience designing and scaling resilient, event-driven platforms for fast-growing tech companies. Based in Paris, he has led architecture, DevOps and product engineering at Kapten and Teale, delivering rapid international expansion, a full Heroku-to-Kubernetes migration, and dozens of microservices while hiring and bootstrapping new tech hubs. Trained as a PhD physicist in optoelectronics, he blends deep scientific rigor with hands-on full-stack practice (Node.js/TypeScript, Kubernetes, CQRS, event sourcing, ML industrialization) and a track record of publishing articles and patents. Known for pushing engineering culture—automation, observability, and measurable “golden metrics”—he stays operationally involved, shipping reusable libraries and performance-driven solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 Nanotechnologies, Master 2 Nanotechnologies at University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology
PhD Optoelectronics, PhD Optoelectronics at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
Master Degree Electronics and Informatics, Master Degree Electronics and Informatics at Institut supérieur d'électronique et du numérique
French, English, German