Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

CTO/CPO with over 15 years of experience building critical technical products, from 0 to industrial scale. Co-architect of the first eIDAS qualified E-Delivery service in Europe (AR24, acquired by Docaposte), auditor on the most demanding standards (eIDAS, PVID, ISO27001), and a key player in the digital transformation of fast-growing scale-ups. Recognized expert in high-availability systems, complex regulatory compliance, and leadership of technical teams of 30+ people.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Montpellier (up to 50km)

SCOP3 / SWIDEE / SELIARIS
Chief Product & Technical Officer
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
July 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
Montpellier, France
Recruited following a €5.2M funding round to structure and manage the technological dimension of a fast-growing scale-up. Built the tech team from scratch, designed and deployed tools, processes, and automations, ultimately generating a self-sufficient SaaS product (Seliaris) marketed under a white-label model.

Key Results:
▸ Context: Post €5.2M funding round – mission to structure tech and accelerate product development
▸ Growth: +30% revenue driven by digitalization and automation
▸ Operational Efficiency: Administrative workload reduced from 50% to 10% of team time
▸ Product Creation: Internal tools become Seliaris, a white-label SaaS platform open to other companies
▸ Management: Improved reliability of management data and implementation of decision-making dashboards

Achievements:
▸ Defined the technological vision and 18-month product roadmap – make/buy decisions, stack choices, prioritization by business value
▸ Identified growth opportunities through technology and translated them into concrete product initiatives
▸ Built the tech team from scratch: recruitment, structuring, engineering rituals, and culture
▸ Designed and developed internal tools for automating business workflows
▸ Implemented operational and management processes (data, dashboards, KPIs)
▸ Transformed internal tools into a marketable SaaS product – the birth of Seliaris
Team Management IT Systems Architecture Cybersecurity Site Reliability Engineering
Freelance
CPTO | Architect | SRE
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
January 2021 - Today (5 years and 7 months)
Montpellier, France
▸ Technical audits & due diligence (SaaS startups, scale-ups in funding or acquisition phase)
▸ Product vision and roadmap definition in rapid growth contexts
▸ Clients: HR SaaS Scale-up, LegalTech SaaS, ERP SaaS
▸ Definition of cloud-native architectures and migration to modern stacks
▸ Support for agile transformation and implementation of product rituals
▸ Coaching of junior CTOs/CPOs and onboarding of new technical leads
▸ Infrastructure and reliability audits for growing SaaS scale-ups (HR SaaS, LegalTech, ERP)
▸ SLO definition, observability implementation, and on-call practice structuring
▸ Support for cloud-native migration and Kubernetes adoption
Site Reliability Engineering Consulting and Audit ISO 27001 Lead Implementer IT Systems Architecture
AR24
Application Manager | Production Manager | Architect - First Employee
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
June 2015 - July 2024 (9 years and 1 month)
Paris, France
AR24 is the leader in 100% electronic registered mail, a startup founded in 2015, the year I joined the entrepreneurial adventure as the 1st employee.

We successfully developed the 1st qualified E-Delivery service in France and the 1st qualified E-Delivery service in Europe with remote visual identity verification – a process that has become a full-fledged service designated PVID.

In 9 years, starting from nothing, we have built a legaltech champion, becoming a benchmark for notaries, lawyers, condominium trustees, etc., achieving over €15 million in annual revenue and growing to over 70 employees. In 2020, AR24 was acquired by Docaposte, the digital division of the La Poste group.

During this journey, I had the opportunity to wear multiple hats and participate in various company projects aimed at becoming a leader in its field.
This included, but was not limited to:
- Design & Development of client/server applications
- Design and management of a billing tool with direct debit, reminders, debt collection, and invoicing management
- Implementation, architecture definition, management of resilient and high-availability infrastructure (ModSecurity, MariaDB, Redis, Maxscale, HAProxy, RHEL, Proxmox, Docker, Postfix, iRedMail, HSM Bull, Gitlab CI/CD, Kubernetes, etc.) capable of handling over 300 RPS
- Datacenter Migration
- Mass mailing, anti-spam rules, mail server operations, monitoring and tracking of spam rates (+ 200k emails/day, +99.9% deliverability)
- Audit, documentation, diagrams, compliance, and qualification for eIDAS/PVID with ANSSI/LSTI/Sealweb/Lexfo
- Management, Leadership, Structuring, Recruitment
- Project management, roadmaps, and design for IT & products
- Budget and supplier management
- Change management (Agility / Scrum / Squads / Autonomy)
- Standard definition
- Technological innovation
Team Management IT Systems Architecture eIDAS Hypergrowth Scalability