Grégoire Parant
Co-Founder & COO CPO at WorkAdventure
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolGrégoire Parant is a product-driven software leader and founder with nine years of experience building cloud-native, microservices-based platforms and SaaS businesses from Paris. As Co-Founder and COO/CPO of WorkAdventure he led product vision, go-to-market and technical strategy, growing the open-source virtual office to 100k+ users across 40+ countries and achieving profitability while keeping the project sovereign and GDPR-friendly. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering—contributing to popular open-source projects like WorkAdventure with authentication, UI and chat features—with strong operational chops in pricing, integrations (Microsoft Teams, OpenAI, LiveKit) and scaling infrastructure. A former technical architect and project director, he’s fluent in event-sourced microservices, CI/CD and Kubernetes, and now teaches AI and enterprise IT urbanization at master level. Known for translating complex technical constraints into pragmatic product roadmaps, he also invests in early-stage startups and co-founded Metadventure, signalling a sustained focus on immersive collaboration and the metaverse.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master MIAGE, Mathématiques Informatiques Appliqués à la Gestion d'Entreprises, Mathématiques et informatique, Master MIAGE, Mathématiques Informatiques Appliqués à la Gestion d'Entreprises, Mathématiques et informatique at Universite de Lorraine
Spanish, English
Github Skills (15)
openid-connect10
typescript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
javascript10
chat10
typescripts10
chat-application10
typescript-types10
apidoc9
api9
svelte9
nodejs8
expressjs8
react4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
workadventure/workadventure
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A collaborative web application (virtual office) presented as a 16-bit RPG video game
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:73 releases, 173 reviews, 978 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Grégoire primarily focused on implementing and modifying features related to user authentication and application integration, with changes spanning both the front-end and back-end components. Their commits demonstrate a focus on adding new functionality for OpenID login, adding a profile page, and updating the chat application with features like file attachments and reactions. They also made several changes related to improving user interface elements, demonstrating involvement in both front-end and API-related work.
workadventuregame16-bitrpgweb-application
kokoye2007/3xvivr-room
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 commits in 2 months
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