Summary
Sébastien Saunier is a Ruby on Rails expert and seasoned software engineer with over 17 years of experience building and shipping web products across Ruby, Python, PHP and C# stacks. As co-founder and long-time CTO of Le Wagon, he helped scale a global coding school to 30k+ alumni across 40 cities and guided the technical transition after a decade at the helm. He now operates as a Fractional CTO and hands-on technical lead, combining strategic product judgment with day-to-day engineering craft. His background spans startup SaaS, analytics, and developer tools—shaped by early engineering roles at Google and experience designing data-driven features with in-house data scientists. Based in France and grounded in École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris training, he’s as comfortable mentoring teams as he is diving into code to unblock delivery. A pragmatic operator who values teaching, he often blends pedagogy with product work to accelerate technical teams.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at École Polytechnique
Master of Science - MS, Computer Programming, Master of Science - MS, Computer Programming at Télécom Paris