Pierre-antoine Duchâteau
Founding Engineer at Wavo
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre-Antoine Duchâteau is a Founding Engineer and product-minded full-stack developer with 14 years of experience building high-uncertainty, fast-iterating ventures across startups, government programs, and enterprise clients. He blends hands-on engineering (TypeScript/React/Node, C/C++, Python, Java) with product leadership and team building, having led projects from POC to production and scaled teams up to 25+. As a Techstars alumnus and former co-founder/CEO, he has a strong track record of shipping pragmatic solutions—examples include helping launch FranceConnect and driving an event-sourced renewables platform at beta.gouv.fr. He advises and builds for clients who need rapid, low-risk innovation and has a knack for simplifying complex legacy replacements (accounting systems, inventory financing). An active open-source contributor, he improved asynchronous type-safe error handling in the well-regarded neverthrow TypeScript library, demonstrating attention to developer ergonomics. Based in Lyon, he combines technical depth with entrepreneurial instincts and a penchant for turning research-grade ideas into market-ready products.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering at Prépa Aux Lazaristes - LyonMasters in Science, Engineering, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Masters in Science, Engineering, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris
English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
asynchronous10
error-handling10
typescript10
javascript10
functional-programming10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
async10
es6-promise9
type-safety9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
supermacro/neverthrow
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Type-Safe Errors for JS & TypeScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 136 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pierre-antoine primarily contributed to enhancing the `ResultAsync` type in a TypeScript/JavaScript library for type-safe error handling. They refactored existing methods, removed dependencies, and improved the chainability of asynchronous operations. Additionally, the user added tests for helper functions and extended `ResultAsync`'s functionality to handle rejected Promises, demonstrating a focus on improving the library's asynchronous error management capabilities. These changes enhance the library's usability and robustness for asynchronous workflows.
functional-programmingjavascripttype-safetypescriptsafe
MTES-MCT/potentiel
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
⚡️ Connecte les acteurs du parcours administratif des projets d'EnR électriques soumis à appel d'offres en France
Contributions:497 reviews, 861 commits, 404 PRs in 2 years 6 months
energies
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