Summary
Guillaume Faure-dumont is a pragmatic technology leader and hands-on CTO with 11+ years building and scaling web products, currently leading engineering at The Hacking Project while freelancing as a Ruby on Rails full-stack developer. He combines startup founding experience (co-founder and CTO of ZikMe) with a long track record mentoring and teaching developers through roles at Mentors On Rails, WomenOnRails, and as a guest lecturer. Comfortable translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, he helps founders hire and manage engineering teams without jargon. His background spans architecture and code quality consulting for fast-growing companies and banks, reflecting an ability to move between strict enterprise constraints and lean startup speed. Based in Greater Paris, he balances leadership, teaching, and active product development, often reserving part-time freelance capacity to stay deeply technical.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Baccalauréat at Lycée Edgar Poe
engineer, engineer at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Engineer, Engineer at École pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
French, English, Spanish