Curriculum Vitae

My name is Jean-Michel, I am currently based in Lyon (France) as the Head Of Technology of Per Angusta within an awesome team ❤. I like to get and to share skills in Web development. Find below a summary of the events that influenced me.


Jean-Michel Gigault / Committed Engineers Blog

Writer @Committed Engineers Blog

Lyon, France
From 07 February 2020 to Now

32 yo

Committed Engineers is a Tech blog edited by an enthusiastic team of developers at Per Angusta.
In February 2020, I decided to launch this blog with my team in order to improve our visibility and to facilitate hiring.
Thus, the main objective is to provide my team with a way of shining over the Web :-)

English Blog Open Source

Jean-Michel Gigault / Lyon English Toastmasters

Member @Lyon English Toastmasters

Lyon, France
From 09 April 2019 to 30 April 2020

31 yo

Lyon English Toastmasters is an "Only in English Speaking" Association in Communication and Leadership.
We have Two Monthly Meetings at the iaelyon (Jean Moulin University) and also a Third Monthly Meeting at the Mairie 6eme Lyon.
Toastmasters International's workshops help members improve their speaking and leadership skills since 1924 by attending one of the 16,400 clubs, totaling 352,000 members in 141 countries that makes up our global network.

English Public speaking Leadership

Jean-Michel Gigault / Lyon.rb

Organizer @Lyon.rb

Lyon, France
From 01 March 2019 to Now

31 yo
1.8 years

Lyon.rb is a Ruby developers community in Lyon (France).
Since March 2019, I have been co-organizing regular events with my colleagues from Per Angusta and the Ruby community in Lyon.
These events are opportunities to present talks and develop knowledge sharing among community members.

Community Open Source

Jean-Michel Gigault / Les copains d'abord Tour 2018

Dancer @Les copains d'abord Tour 2018

Sète, France
On 20 August 2018

31 yo

I am proud to have been part of such a magical event at the venue Théâtre de la Mer in Sète (South of France).
Solo saxophonist Fred Karato, musicians of the Compagnie Les Enjoliveurs, special guest Liane Foly and tap dancers celebrate Georges Brassens, in a musical journey Jazz, Swing, Salsa, Pop... A tribute to the French singer presented by Nelson Monfort and staged by Yves Pignard.

Tap Dance

Jean-Michel Gigault / Per Angusta

Head of Technology @Per Angusta

Lyon, France
From 01 January 2017 to Now

29 yo
4.0 years

Per Angusta is a SaaS Procurement performance management software editor.
No more waste time consolidating Excel files to track and report on your results anymore: Our solution is easy to use, robust and collaborative, built by buyers for the buyers.
This is my current position and I am responsible for the development roadmap as a Lead Developer.

SaaS Ruby Postgres API Management Leadership

Jean-Michel Gigault / HrACKATHON

Participant @HrACKATHON

Paris, France
From 27 March 2015 to 28 March 2015
From 14 April 2016 to 15 April 2016

27 yo
28 yo

HRackathon is a hack day organised by Talentys (S&H Group) intended for Human Resources innovation in collaboration with CAC 40 companies.
It aimed to provide concrete deliverables that help HR innovation projects of partner companies.

2015: AXA France, DANONE and SOCIETE GENERALE.
AXA France Special Award
Within a complementary and cohesive team of 7 persons (3 developers from school 42, 3 HR staff from AXA and one student from the business school Telecom Ecole de Management), I participated in the development of a mobile application intended to "reinvent recruitment at AXA France" as described by our slogan.
We won the special award of the company AXA France.

2016: AIR LIQUIDE, BNP PARIBAS and AIRBUS GROUP
Air Liquide Special Award
What if the mood of your employees was reflecting the health of their project? Try "Mood m'App" the mood tracker in real time! My team and I were very enthusiastic to present our project to the juries. We were rewarded by AIR LIQUIDE for having been disruptive in HR.

Collaboration Image-processing JavaScript API

Jean-Michel Gigault / SGMAP

Developer @SGMAP

Paris, France
From 01 April 2016 to 30 June 2016

28 yo

The public institution SGMAP supports the creation of new digital services through startups incubation and partnerships.
I worked in partnership with School 42 and SGMAP (General Secretariat for the Modernization of Public Action) on a project aiming to exploit the new opportunities brought to citizens by the CPA, a career personal account, which is the flagship project of the new Labour Law. We are developing new web services for citizens in order to facilitate consultation and use of their personal rights, bringing them more security in their professional careers. My team and I are responsible for creating a secured API that provides personal data to the Services.

Node.JS API Open Source

Jean-Michel Gigault / Matrice

Student @Matrice

Paris, France
From 01 January 2016 to 31 December 2017

28 yo
2.0 years

Matrice is a disruptive training program whose goal is to transmit the entrepreneurial spirit and critical thinking.
I worked in partnership with School 42 and SGMAP (General Secretariat for the Modernization of Public Action) on a project aiming to exploit the new opportunities brought to citizens by the CPA, a career personal account, which is the flagship project of the new Labour Law. We are developing new web services for citizens in order to facilitate consultation and use of their personal rights, bringing them more security in their professional careers. My team and I are responsible for creating a secured API that provides personal data to the Services.

Peer-entrepreneuship Leadership

Jean-Michel Gigault / weSH

Contributor @weSH

Paris, France
From 01 January 2016 to 31 December 2016

28 yo

weSH is a collective project for programming a Unix command-line interpreter (shell).
Work on a complete Shell implementation that supports job control, redirections, subshells, advanced command lines (pipes, inhibitors, variables) and an enhanced interactive mode through the terminal capabilities.

Unix C-Programming Open Source

Jean-Michel Gigault / 42ShellTester

Contributor @42ShellTester

Paris, France
From 01 January 2016 to 31 December 2017

28 yo
2.0 years

42ShellTester is an integration testing framework wrote in Bash and designed for the pedagogical projects of the Shell branch at School 42 (Paris).

Shell-scripting Open Source

Jean-Michel Gigault / Baasile IO

Entrepreneur @Baasile IO

Paris, France
From 01 January 2016 to 31 December 2017

28 yo
2.0 years

Baasile IO simplifies the exchange of data between services and data providers by acting as a trusted third party. Redeploy the saved resources to the enhancement of data!
The project is born at 42 school during a training program with partners like the incubator Creative Valley, the prestigious school ENA and the French ministry of Labor. Now developed within the cooperative of entrepreneurs Port Parallèle based in Paris.

Entrepreneurship

Jean-Michel Gigault / Per Angusta

Intern @Per Angusta

Lyon, France
From 01 July 2015 to 31 December 2015

28 yo

I got hired for a 6 months internship as Ruby on Rails developer at Per Angusta, a French startup editing a SaaS Procurement performance management software. This experience gave me concrete skills in frameworks, continuous integration and test-driven development. I achieved my objectives in 3 months and passed the following months bringing new ideas to the team and releasing new features.

SaaS Ruby Postgres

Jean-Michel Gigault / 42MapGenerator

Creator @42MapGenerator

Paris, France
From 01 June 2015 to 31 December 2017

28 yo
2.6 years

42MapGenerator is an interactive prompt providing topography data.
42MapGenerator is a tiny bash script developed at School 42 (Paris) for downloading and generating maps of the real world, the Earth's moon and the planet Venus for the pedagogical project Fil de Fer (FdF).

Shell-scripting API Open Source

Jean-Michel Gigault / 42FileChecker

Creator @42FileChecker

Paris, France
From 01 January 2015 to 31 December 2017

27 yo
3.0 years

42FileChecker is a personal project aiming to help students to succeed their C-programming projects.
It is a tiny bash script for testing and checking the files according to the rules of the subjects.

Unix C-Programming Shell-scripting Open Source

Jean-Michel Gigault / 42

Student @42

Paris, France
From 01 September 2014 to 28 February 2017

27 yo
2.5 years

42 is a nonprofit and tuition-free computer programming school.
The 42 teaching method is innovative in many ways. It represents a new step in the implementation of the principles of « open » education successfully developed over 20 years ago by Nicolas Sadirac and his team. 42 goes further, in fact, by developing a system of self-education: Peer 2 Peer learning. This is a type of participatory learning that allows students to unleash their creativity through project-based learning.

Peer-learning C-Programming

Jean-Michel Gigault / Les Effleurés de la Gambette

Dancer @Les Effleurés de la Gambette

Montpellier, France
From 01 September 2013 to 30 June 2014

26 yo

Based in Montpellier, Les Effleurés de la gambette is a group of professional and amateur cabaret artists, who will captivate you!
I mixed my talent as a tap dancer with my curiosity for stripping to perform a few cabaret performances for a year with them.

Tap Dance Stripping

Jean-Michel Gigault / Ça va jazzer

Dancer @Ça va jazzer

Montpellier, France
From 06 July 2013 to Now

26 yo
7.5 years

"Ça va jazzer" is a show featuring musicians and tap dancers Eric Scialo, Audrey Isnard and I by the Compagnie Les Enjoliveurs.
The show retraces the evolution of tap dancing through different paintings according to the chronology of Jazz.

Tap Dance

Jean-Michel Gigault / Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013

Dancer @Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013

Milan, Italy
On 22 June 2013

26 yo

An original Tap Dance performance staged by Fabien Ruiz at the Milan Fashion Week Spring 2013 and featuring twenty tap dancers.
"A bit of Hollywood in Milan" are Thom Browne's words, the American fashion designer, to describe its Moncler Gamme Bleu SS13 show.

Tap Dance

Jean-Michel Gigault / Buy Tickets Platform

Creator @Buy Tickets Platform

Montpellier, France
From 01 January 2013 to 31 July 2019

25 yo
6.6 years

Buy Tickets Platform allows tap dancers to book and pay online their registration to the Tap Festival in Montpellier.

PHP MySQL PayPal

Jean-Michel Gigault / La Charmille

Dancer @La Charmille

Montpellier, France
From 01 September 2012 to 03 October 2013

25 yo

Based in Montpellier, La Charmille is an organization created by Zaza Poppin in 2011.
Its purpose is to promote and allow the practice of burlesque, its retro, glamorous and festive universe with various artistic facets.
I mixed my talent as a tap dancer with my curiosity for stripping to perform a few cabaret performances for a year with its artists.

Tap Dance Stripping

Jean-Michel Gigault / Claquettes en Vogue

Tap Instructor @Claquettes en Vogue

Montpellier, France
From 01 September 2009 to 30 June 2014

22 yo
4.8 years

Following my training of Tap Dance technique and improvisation since my teens, I explored the way of instruction as an employee of the organisation "Claquettes en Vogue" in Montpellier between 2009 and 2014.

Pedagogy Tap Dance

Jean-Michel Gigault / Pokchips

Developer @Pokchips

Gennevilliers, France
From 01 February 2007 to 30 April 2014

19 yo
7.2 years

Pokchips.com is one of the first great E-commerce platform of poker equipment in France.
During 7 years, I was responsible for carrying out three major versions of the site, based on a LAMP architecture and a front/back-end entirely homemade. This experience has strengthened my will to learn freely and autonomously, as I was the unique dev, and allowed me to touch all sides of the development of E-commerce solutions (SEO, user interfaces, databases, integration with other solutions, server maintenance, security).

PHP MySQL Apache E-Commerce

Jean-Michel Gigault / Claquettes en Vogue

Active Member @Claquettes en Vogue

Montpellier, France
From 09 November 2005 to 31 December 2018

18 yo
13.2 years

Fascinated by the art of tap dancing since the age of 10, I am actively involved in the organisation "Claquettes en Vogue" in Montpellier, motivated by the desire to promote this art through performances and local events often charitable.
I got hired as an active member as soon as my legal age permitted, mainly responsible for the Web services and communications (Registration platforms, website and social networks) and spending my free time to help the community.

Volunteering Collaboration Tap Dance

Jean-Michel Gigault / Homemade CMS

Creator @Homemade CMS

Montpellier, France
From 01 January 2005 to 31 December 2015

17 yo
11.0 years

I built a homemade Content Management System to provide nonprofit organizations with a tool to manage their own websites, to publish their news and activity planning.

PHP MySQL

Jean-Michel Gigault / Eric'Son 5

Dancer @Eric'Son 5

Montpellier, France
From 01 January 2004 to 31 July 2007

16 yo
3.6 years

In 2004: Five friends trained and motivated by Eric Scialo to form their own shows. Two girls then joined them to become the Ericsonettes!
Our common passion for the art of tap dancing has brought us together to the point of forming a solidarity group whose atmosphere is as delirious as it is serious.

Tap Dance

Jean-Michel Gigault / HelioFlash

Creator @HelioFlash

Montpellier, France
From 01 January 2003 to 31 December 2008

15 yo
6.0 years

HelioFlash.com was a personal project aiming to help newbies learning how to use Adobe Flash software (originally developed by Macromedia), a project I carried out during my youth for many years.
It is my early main project in my life as a passionate of Web development. I literally felt in love of interactive websites mixing smooth user interface and database interaction.
The website was receiving more than 150 unique visitors per day during its peak of popularity.

Flash ActionScript PHP MySQL Open Source

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