Summary
Nicolas Rouanne is a seasoned product-focused engineering leader and founder with over a decade building APIs, mobile and web applications for startups and major clients. As VP Engineering at Bruno and CEO of Qraft/Gybe, he combines hands-on full-stack development (Rails, Node.js, React/React Native, Python) with hiring and scaling high-performing teams. He has a proven track record shipping consumer-grade fintech and edtech products — including a 100k+ user React Native banking app featured on the App Store — and improving reliability through microservices and CI/CD. A former UX designer and project director, he blends multi-screen UX sensibility with pragmatic delivery skills and strong devops experience on AWS and GCP. Nicolas is bilingual (French/English) and brings rare cross-discipline fluency from ASIC design to product strategy, which helps him translate complex technical constraints into clear business outcomes. Based in Marseille, he now also co-builds Billi, a simple billing product for freelancers, continuing his focus on practical, high-quality software.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Master of Science, Real-time embedded systems, Networking, Computer Science, Master of Science, Real-time embedded systems, Networking, Computer Science at Telecom ParisTech
French, English, German