Manfred Touron

Type: person Last Updated: 2026-02-16 Status: Active Research Sessions: 1

Executive Summary

Manfred Touron is a French computer scientist and entrepreneur, co-founder and VP of Engineering at Gno.land (blockchain smart contract platform with Jae Kwon). He previously co-founded Scaleway (pioneering ARM-based cloud computing), founded Berty Technologies (peer-to-peer secure messaging), and served as Head of Cyber Security at 42. A prolific open-source contributor with 500+ GitHub projects, he has been coding in Go since 2012.

Facts

Education & Background

• Attended EPITECH (European Institute of Technology) — Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/manfred-touron (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Also studied at Holberton School — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Graduated from Epitech in 2011 — Source: https://medium.com/@onbloc/the-architects-of-gno-land-a653a1978af3 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Has been coding for "half his life" and codes nearly every day — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Based in France — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Gno.land

• Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Gno.land — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Working alongside Jae Kwon to build Gno.land smart contract platform — Source: https://medium.com/@onbloc/the-architects-of-gno-land-a653a1978af3 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Gno is an interpreted Go virtual machine for composable apps — Source: https://www.cypherhunter.com/en/p/gno-land/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• gnolang/gno repository has 1.1k GitHub stars — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Has been a Gopher (Go programmer) since 2012 — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Berty Technologies

• Founder of Berty Technologies — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Berty: "unstoppable communication" — peer-to-peer messaging without internet dependency — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Berty Messenger is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• berty/berty repository has 9.1k GitHub stars — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Helped pioneer the Wesh Network (asynchronous mesh networking protocol) — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Scaleway & Earlier Ventures

• Co-Founder & CTO at Scaleway — Source: https://medium.com/@onbloc/the-architects-of-gno-land-a653a1978af3 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Led development of world's first dedicated ARM-based cloud platform at Scaleway — Source: https://medium.com/@onbloc/the-architects-of-gno-land-a653a1978af3 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Founder & CEO of Wulo (non-profit Uber alternative) — reached 11k passengers in 5 months — Source: https://medium.com/@onbloc/the-architects-of-gno-land-a653a1978af3 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Previously Head of Cyber Security at 42 (Xavier Niel's coding school) — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Open Source & Community

• Over 500 open-source projects on GitHub — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• 1.6k GitHub followers, 631 repositories — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• FOSDEM 2024 speaker — Source: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/speaker/VKZQY8/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Interests: cryptography, productivity, graph theory, blockchain, philosophy, music — Source: https://sessionize.com/moul/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Has Wikidata entry (Q60461088) — Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60461088 (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• GitHub: github.com/moul — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Related Entities

• Gno.land - Co-founder, VP Engineering (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Jae Kwon - Gno.land co-founder (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Scaleway - Co-founder, former CTO (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Berty Technologies - Founder (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Wulo / United Drivers - Founder, non-profit ride-hailing (discovered: 2026-02-18)
• 42 School - Former Head of Cyber Security (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Corentin Kerisit - Colleague (EPITECH network) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Guilhem Fanton - Long-time collaborator, Wulo → Berty → gnolang (discovered: 2026-02-18)
• Morgan Bazalgette - gnolang core team colleague (discovered: 2026-02-18)
• Antoine Breuil (zôÖma) - Berty community, Paris P2P co-founder (discovered: 2026-02-18)

Sources

1. https://github.com/moul - GitHub profile
2. https://sessionize.com/moul/ - Sessionize speaker profile
3. https://medium.com/@onbloc/the-architects-of-gno-land-a653a1978af3 - Gno.land architects article
4. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/manfred-touron - Crunchbase profile
5. https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/speaker/VKZQY8/ - FOSDEM 2024

Research History

• 2026-02-16: Initial research covering education, Gno.land, Berty, Scaleway, open source (1 iteration, 8+ sources)