
Quentin Gouès
Software Engineer | Engineering Manager 🚀
Salary / Daily rate
Brest, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
👋 Hello there, I’m Quentin. I’m passionate about building useful and interesting products, and helping teams deliver results. I am available to work with companies and individuals at various stages to help them build their products or help their teams grow. I can help with: ⚙️ software development on front-end web development (ReactJS, Typescript) or embedded programming (C, shell, Go) 📈 building tech teams 👬 people and project management 🚀 consulting or advisory services
Work experience
Senior Back End Lead
Wise Systems
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
7 months
Remote
• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Led a cross-functional team of contractors in designing and implementing scalable, cloud-native backend solutions on AWS, ensuring high availability, security, and performance for mission-critical APIs and microservices. • Legacy Modernization: Spearheaded the deprecation of legacy code while maintaining integration with existing machine learning models, improving system maintainability and reducing technical debt. • Stack: Typescript, Javascript, AWS (Lambda, Cloudformation), PostgreSQL (RDS), MongoDB (DocumentDB), DynamoDB, Gitlab CI/ CD, Docker.
Programming Teacher
Steer StudiosFreelance
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024
6 months
Remote
• Technical Mentoring: Trained a junior student for the role of Online Programmer, focusing on server-side development for multiplayer games and best practices in software engineering. • Curriculum: C#, Unity, .NET , Redis, MongoDB.
Dashlane
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
4 years 6 months
Senior Engineering Manager - Data Engineering
Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
10 months
• Data Strategy & Governance: Defined and executed the long-term data platform strategy, aligning technical roadmaps with business objectives and data governance best practices (GDPR, security, compliance). • Modern Data Stack Migration: Led a team of 4 data engineers in migrating legacy ETL pipelines to a modern, scalable data stack (Airflow, Airbyte, Redshift, DBT), reducing processing time and infrastructure costs. • Agile Transformation: Implemented Agile/ Scrum frameworks, improving team productivity and cross-departmental visibility. Influenced the organization of the Data department and contributed to hiring the VP of Data. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnered with product, security, and compliance teams to ensure data integrity, interoperability, and ethical use of user data. • Stack: AWS, Airflow, Airbyte, Redshift, DBT , Gitlab.
Engineering Manager - Web
Dec 2021 - May 2023
1 year 6 months
Paris, France
• Technical Leadership: Managed a team of 5 web developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning. Identified individual strengths/ weaknesses and supported career development. • Autofill Engine Architecture: Served as technical lead and architect for the autofill engine, designing secure, scalable algorithms for form detection and credential retrieval. Ensured compliance with Google’s MV3 Manifest, enabling business continuity for 10M+ users. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Established the Web Guild and defined technical decision-making processes, aligning cross-team objectives with product vision and business goals. • Stack: Web extensions API, Jira, Confluence, ProductBoard, Figma, Gitlab, Google MV3.
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead - Web
Oct 2019 - May 2023
3 years 8 months
Paris, France
• Machine Learning & Autofill Engine: Developed and maintained the machine learning-based autofill engine, designing algorithms to detect forms, securely retrieve credentials, and populate fields. • React Application Rewrite: Fully rewrote the React in-context web application, improving user experience, performance, and maintainability. • Security & Testing: Implemented robust security measures to protect users’ credentials and prevent malicious attacks. Established a comprehensive testing strategy using Jest, Cypress, Selenium, and Cucumber. • CI/CD & Code Quality: Set up SonarQube for static code analysis and GitLab CI/ CD pipelines, ensuring continuous improvement of code quality and maintainability. • Stack: React, Typescript, Sonarqube, Jest, Cypress, Selenium, Cucumbe, Node.js, Gitlab CI/ CD, Docker, ML (linear regression model, data scrapping and annotation in python).
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
ACTIA Group
Dec 2016 - Sep 2019
2 years 10 months
Maisons-Alfort, France
• End-to-End System Architecture: Led the full software development lifecycle for automotive embedded devices (industrial PCs, vehicle gateways) on WinCE, Linux and Android x86, including drivers, libraries, APIs, and OTA updates, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance with industry standards. • Cross-Platform Development: Developed and maintained low-level software across diverse environments (OpenWRT , Yocto, Win32), compilers (Clang, Musl, GCC), programming languages (C, Java, Go) and architectures (x86, ARM), with a focus on real-time performance and reliability. • Industry Standardization: Represented Actia at ITxPT , promoting thestandardization of vehicle communication protocols and fostering global interoperability. • Stack: C, C#, Assembly, Java, Go, Bash, Linux, Android x86, WinCE, Win32.
Embedded Software Engineer
ACTIA Corporation
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
1 year
Elkhart, IN, USA
• Low-Level Software Development: Developed Board Support Packages (BSP) for marine embedded displays, including support for Renesas processors (FreeRTOS) and STM32 microcontrollers, with CAN/ LIN/ J1939 communication protocols. • Stack: C, FreeRTOS.
Education
The University of Queensland
Master of Engineering Science, Electrical Engineering
2014 - 2015
2 years
CentraleSupélec
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) / Diplôme Ingénieur
2011 - 2014
4 years