Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

I offer my services as a software engineer on critical projects, leveraging my 27 years of experience across various industries, having held different roles, as an entrepreneur, CTO, Product Director, Architect, Project Manager, and of course Software Developer.

I understand and take into consideration the business and organizational challenges of the companies I work for, and I can extend the scope of my primary mission to increase the chances of success for the projects I collaborate on, whether it's project management, product management, or training.

I have extensive experience in projects and software engineering, many years of software development practice in very diverse technological contexts. I am more experienced in back-end development than front-end, but I can quickly improve my front-end skills if needed, as this practice greatly interests me.

My profile is not limited to software development know-how, which allows me to have a holistic approach to problems.

I have entrepreneurial experience: two of the companies I founded have been acquired.
I have held several positions as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Product Officer (CPO), Software Architect, Project Manager, and Software Developer.
I have worked in various sectors such as software, banking, mobile, transportation, and retail.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
French
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

E2M
Senior Software Engineer
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
January 2003 - Today (23 years and 5 months)
Paris, France
I now use this company structure, which I created in 2003, to offer my services and bill for my work.

I position myself as a software developer, as I remain passionate about this activity from my early days—I started programming at age 12 and I'm almost 52—and I believe I can bring a lot of value in this area, while trying to elevate the team I'm part of.

I conduct constant technological watch, which has allowed me to stay up-to-date, even at the cutting edge, for all these years. I generally write few lines of code, preferring to select frameworks and libraries that provide the right leverage and allow connecting selected components.

In the field of code, I use generative AI sparingly—and hopefully with discernment—to accelerate development, improve documentation, and create highly technical, low-level code segments when necessary.

I am familiar with the Stable Diffusion model, its 3 main architectural elements: CLIP, VAE, and U-Net. I have a solid understanding of the mathematics underlying this model, and this section of generative AI fascinates me. I have extensively used ComfyUI and have some experience training and using LoRAs.
Java Python Project Management Typescript Software Architecture
Kazaar
CTO
RETAIL (SMALL BUSINESS)
April 2024 - June 2025 (1 year and 2 months)
Saint-Ouen, France
In charge of staffing and running a technical team, of the architecture and of the software technical stack of the Kazaar Platform, an emerging B2B SaaS solution focused on the ordering of offline marketing commodities, from brief to delivery.
Human Resources Software Architecture Project Management Product Management Infrastructure
Ogury
VP of Engineering
DIGITAL AND IT
February 2022 - April 2024 (2 years and 2 months)
Paris, France
Following its acquisition, I was in charge of integrating the Motionly solution into Ogury's stack, leveraging my SaaS background, including empowering a new team dedicated to the evolution of the solution in Ogury's ecosystem.

At the moment I left the company, the Motionly technology had been fully integrated as the company creative solution for most of the advertising campaigns, generating multiple hundreds of ad impressions per month.
Product Management Project Management JavaScript People Management Infrastructure