Description: The web connects billions of people, The Free culture allows global solidarity, Social networks allows massive sharing, Because I want to be part of that, I make web apps.
My name is Frank Rousseau, I’m 40 years old and I've been a web addict for more than 20 years. I love using and understanding web applications as much as I enjoy building them. I created my first website in 1997, it was a poetry registry. Since then, I've never stopped. Watching, showing, sharing, learning, doing with people from all over the world, are not things you can give up easily. It's something I want to experience forever.
After several years working as a consultant and a developer, I co-founded Cozy Cloud, a startup that built FOSS personal clouds. I was the CTO of the company and grew the product and tech teams to 18 people. We were a remote office team and we did free open source software, so we had to manage the contributions from the community. I really enjoyed that experience and learned a lot from it. I had to leave the company for sad reasons, but the journey was unique.
Toady, I'm working on the CGWire project as CEO. We build collaboration tools for for Animation and VFX studios. By bringing their workflow to the next step, we improve work conditions and movies quality. 75 studios and 10 schools already use our solutions through our services (and dozens more use it by their own).