Gwenaël Ropert
Software Engineer at Fractional Engineering Services
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGwenaël Ropert is a senior software engineer and pragmatic architect with 10+ years building resilient, high-throughput systems and 2.5 years as CTO of a Forbes-recognised ML startup that scaled to 700+ customers and handled billions of messages per minute. He’s a hands-on functional-programming advocate—specialising in Clojure and Scala over the past five years—who has led backend teams, introduced microservices and Akka/Scala at banks, and driven large refactors that significantly reduced legacy code. Comfortable from strategy to code, he combines solutions architecture and delivery experience across finance, insurance, and SaaS, with deep operational knowledge of Kafka, Elasticsearch, GCP/AWS and Kubernetes. A former digital expert at McKinsey and long-time architect in banking, he pairs consulting rigour with engineering craft and coaching. Based in Amsterdam, he now consults on backend and transformation projects and quietly champions S-expression-driven designs and Lisper tooling in production systems.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Université de Bretagne OccidentaleCourse/Modules, Course/Modules at Delft University of TechnologyMaster, Information Technology, Master, Information Technology at University of PretoriaMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Université de La RéunionModules/Courses, Modules/Courses at EPFLModule/Course, Module/Course at Vanderbilt UniversityModules/Courses, Modules/Courses at Stanford University
French, English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (65)
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middleware8
linting8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gwena/gwena.github.io
Apr 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
gwena/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:316 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 1 month
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