Summary
Stéphan Gorget is a Production Engineering Manager with 17 years' experience building and operating large-scale, stateful backend services, currently leading software engineers at Meta in Paris. He brings deep expertise in systems, networking, virtualization, and server administration from early HPC roles at EDF and CEA through long-tenured production engineering at Facebook/Meta. Known for blending hands-on automation and reliability engineering, he has designed and scaled critical infrastructure while driving measurable improvements in service resilience. Stéphan also contributes to the French tech engineering community as a former local organizer of while42, reflecting a commitment to mentorship and peer networks. His background combines formal systems-and-network engineering education with practical experience across high-performance computing and massive consumer-scale services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who turns complex infrastructure challenges into repeatable, automated solutions.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Degree, Computer Science - System and Network, Engineering Degree, Computer Science - System and Network at Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Exchange student, Computer Science, Exchange student, Computer Science at University of Waterloo