Meet the team with the wings

• Philippe "gravis" Lafoucrière / Co-founder and President

  Philippe Lafoucrière is the co-founder and President of Tech-angels. He's graduated from the University of Technology of Compiègne ("UTC", France) with an Engineering Degree in Computer Science. Philippe has spent nearly 10 years as Lead developer, software architect and CTO; and 5 years leading companies as a serial entrepreneur. He has developed software in the Mobile applications industry (with Streamezzo) and web platform solutions with Ruby on Rails.

• Denis Bastiment / Business Strategy - Advisor

  Denis Bastiment has always been interested in anything that can be revolutionized by technology and new modes of communication. He was an innovator in the field of mobile applications and was one of the first to believe in mobile applications as now in the online software. It is the only investor of Tech-angels.

• Olivier "gonzoyumo" Gonzalez / Lead Developer

  Olivier was the very first employee in Tech-Angels, and never left! He's graduated from the University of Technology of Compiègne ("UTC", France) with an Engineering Degree in Computer Science. Olivier is passionate developer, dedicated to his ruby on rails development since more than 4 years. He's the lead developer behind Gemnasium.

• Gilbert "groulot" Roulot / System Administrator

  Gilbert is the spine behind Tech-angels. He's graduated from the University of Technology of Compiègne ("UTC", France) with an Engineering Degree in Computer Science. Gilbert ensures our servers are up-and-running as much as possible by managing our monitoring tools, configurations (with puppet), and backups. While servers are a bit quiet, he's also the lead developer of our product Jagan.

• Kacper "comboy" Cieśla / Lead Developer

  Kacper is graduated from AGH, the Krakow Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, with a Master's degree in Applied Computer Science. He's been working in computer science for more than 10 years, mastering various technologies and languages (C,C++, python, but mostly Ruby). When he is not working on his opensource projects (Moci, annotator), he's building the core architecture of our products.

• Maxim "hiddenfile" Dolgih / Developer

  "Max" is graduated from the Programming Department Computer Academy "Step" ("Shag" / ШАГ). He was one of the first employees of Tech-Angels, and coded on a lot of our projects, especially with Ruby on Rails and Javascript.

• Ivan "intale" Dzyzenko / Lead Developer

  Ivan is graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Applied Mathematics) from 'Classic Private University', Zaporizhzhya. Ivan got his wings in 2011, and after working a several Ruby On Rails projects, is now the lead developer behind Spectorus.

• Daria "amseledka" Grishchenko / Developer

  Daria has a Master of International Journalism, from Dnipropetrovs'kij Nacional'nij Universitet (UA), but went to programming through several Q&A jobs. She's spending all her great energy on our projects, and is responsible of our editorial content, including this site and our blog!