Sébastien Gignoux is a Senior Product Manager with eight years of focused experience turning technical complexity into customer-facing hardware and software products across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on prototyping in Python, Go and HLS C++ with strategic product leadership—from founding startups and shipping MVPs to shaping roadmaps at PayPay and delivering AI-driven accounting SaaS acquired by Visma. Notable achievements include a 276x speedup on critical risk calculations at Fermat and halving accountants’ time-to-value at Inqom, reflecting a knack for measurable impact. Comfortable at the code, team and board levels, he has launched products in the US, France and Japan and is fluent in English and French with working Japanese. Based in Kyoto, he pairs rigorous product thinking and computer-architecture fluency to solve real-world problems across publishing, fintech, FPGA acceleration and mobile payments.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), M.S. in Computer Science at the École des Mines de Nancy, Master of Science (M.S.), M.S. in Computer Science at the École des Mines de Nancy at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy
Research student in Artificial Intelligence, Research student in Artificial Intelligence at The University of Aizu
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Founder Institute
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Sébastien Gignoux - Senior Product Manager at PayPay Corporation