William Le Ferrand

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I am a 25 year-old web enthusiast from Paris, living in San Francisco since December 2010.

During my CS studies at Ecole Polytechnique I wrote a couple of technology-related webservices that were opportunities to mix business and my primary passion, software development. Since then, I have been enjoying an entrepreneurial life between France and the US, with some consulting interludes.

Currently, I am the CEO and cofounder of Be Sport, where I lead the development of a web platform for sports.

On a technical side, I'm fluent in OCaml and C++. I've also been tasting a large variety of languages for the past 12 years, based on the needs.

In San Francisco

  • 2011 .. 2012 - Be Sport, be a sport, share your sport
    • CEO, CTO
    • Designed and implemented Balsa, a web programming framework on top of Ocsigen; designed and implemented Portola, a vectorial map engine.
    • Managing daily operations of a 10+ team in France and US.

In another life, on another continent

  • 2010 - hypios, the europeean leader in open innovation
    • VP Engineering
    • Created and implemented a private social network and collaborative tools for researchers
  • 2010 - experiences around QR-codes and social networks (discontinued)
    • sotokolan: stickers embedding a QR code that triggers a facebook "like"
    • mytwittshirt: t-shirts that embed a QR code that points to a Twitter feed
    • myfacebookshirt: t-shirts that embed a QR code that points to a Facebook profile
  • 2009 .. 2010 - corefarm (discontinued)
    • corefarm.org: free collaborative cluster for 3D rendering
    • corefarm.com: commercial cluster in the cloud
  • 2008 - beouifi (discontinued)
    • Webservice providing a software capable of turning any PC into a public wifi hotspot
  • 2007 - halix (discontinued)
    • Image indexer for flickr, student project at Ecole Polytechnique

Contact

Feel free to reach me by e-mail, or to drop by the office at 160 14th Street, San Francisco.

Design by IsaBelle Le Ferrand