Stephane Gigandet
Founder at Open Food Facts
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarStephane Gigandet is the founder of Open Food Facts and a software engineer with 13 years of experience based in Paris. He combines entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on mobile development, contributing notably to the flagship Smooth‑App built in Flutter and Dart for Android and iOS. Stephane focuses on internationalization and localization, having migrated the app to modern Flutter i18n features and resolved locale-specific issues to broaden global accessibility. He also improved product UX through image upload refactoring and expanded media functionality on product pages. Comfortable wearing both founder and developer hats, he brings practical open-source stewardship to projects that intersect food transparency and mobile technology. An often-overlooked strength is his attention to localization details, which directly amplifies user reach in multilingual markets.
13 years of coding experience
English, French
Github Skills (9)
mobile-application10
internationalization10
localization10
ios10
flutter-game10
dart10
android10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfacts/smooth-app
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
🤳🥫 The new Open Food Facts mobile application for Android and iOS, crafted with Flutter and Dart
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android) & Localization Specialist
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android) & Localization SpecialistContributions:140 reviews, 72 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephane primarily focused on enhancing the internationalization and localization aspects of the Flutter-based mobile application. Their work involved fixing locale-related issues in `.arb` files, migrating to the new Flutter 1.22 internationalization features, and ensuring correct language support. They also contributed to refactoring image uploads and expanding image functionality on the product page. This suggests a focus on improving the app's usability and reach for a global audience.
flutter-appflutter-appsmobile-applicationdartlangfirebase
openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-cordova-app-old-with-blob
Jul 2012 - Mar 2014
Open Food Facts App in Cordova (Android)
Contributions:51 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 8 months
cordovaandroidfoodfactsmobile
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