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Emilie ZawadzkiEZ

Emilie Zawadzki

CTO as a Service ⚙️

€700/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Emilie

🚀 About

CTO with a solid background in the design, implementation, and governance of complex systems.
I support companies (startups, SMEs, institutions) in their technical transformation projects, from strategic vision to operational execution.

🧩 Fast, targeted, and results-oriented interventions — audit, scoping, part-time support, or transition.

⚙️ Areas of Expertise

🏗️ Architecture & Cloud
  • Design and migration of Cloud infrastructures (AWS, Scaleway, OVH)
  • Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform, Helm
  • CI/CD automation, IaC, FinOps
  • Scalability and resilience management

🔍 Observability & Performance
  • Centralization of logs, traces, and metrics (Grafana, Victoria Metrics, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo)
  • Implementation of alerting, business, and technical dashboards
  • Optimization of application and network monitoring

🧠 Microservices & Interoperability
  • Design and governance of distributed architectures (REST/xAPI APIs)
  • Message queues, data pipelines, IT integration
  • Security, authentication (SSO Keycloak, OAuth2, OpenID Connect)

🌐 CMS & Web Platforms
  • Expertise in WordPress, Drupal, Headless CMS (Craft CMS, Strapi, Directus)
  • Integration of LMS tools (LearnDash, BuddyBoss, xAPI, LRS)
  • Performance optimization (caching, CDN, proxy, S3)

🧭 Types of Missions
  • Type Description Duration
  • Flash technical audit: Cloud, security, architecture diagnosis 3 to 5 days
  • Part-time CTO: Strategic support and team management 1 to 3 days/week
  • MVP & project scoping: Assistance with technical design and tool selection 2 to 4 weeks
  • Transition / turnaround: Temporary technical leadership takeover 1 to 3 months

💬 What my clients appreciate
  • A 360° vision: product, development, infrastructure, and budget
  • A pedagogical and collaborative approach
  • Clear and operational deliverables
  • Measurable impact in a short time
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Polish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Tours (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km), Bordeaux (up to 50km), Strasbourg (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Conservatoire Augmenté
    Technical Director
    October 2024 - Today (1 year and 8 months)
    Paris, France
    Technical Director for the new subsidiary of CNSMDP. Development of a new e-learning platform and online resource databases dedicated to music and dance pedagogy for Conservatoire Augmenté, a subsidiary of CNSMDP (France 2030).
    • Support for business teams on various projects
    • Technical team coordination: recruitment, technical and functional specifications, hands-on, R&D
    • Cloud Architecture: CI/CD, Scaling, FinOps
    • Cybersecurity strategy
    • LMS benchmark
    • Technology watch
    • Infrastructure project: deployment of 400m of fiber + CISCO Meraki infrastructure + Microsoft Tenant + NAS
    • Audits: Security, Accessibility, Eco-design
  • Bright CTO
    Technical Director
    September 2021 - September 2024 (3 years)
    Paris, France
    Head of Architecture and Cybersecurity
    • Implementation of specific backend for a Jamstack architecture (Django REST API (Python), Auth0, OAuth, Postgres, Docker)
    • AWS System Administration under Linux (EC2, S3, Cloudfront, API Gateway, Lambda) / Netlify (Lambda)
    • Deployment and maintenance of our Headless Craft CMS instances (GraphQL API)
    • Monitoring: Sentry + AWS
    • Implementation of Continuous Deployment with Static Site Generation
    • R&D: Real-time Artificial Intelligence (MediaPipe, Yolo), Unreal (WebSocket, Pixel Streaming)
    • Management of Technical Audits - Accessibility - GDPR - Contracts - Quotes
    • Sound Design
  • Hémisphère Son
    Technical Lead
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    November 2020 - January 2022 (1 year and 3 months)
    Contemporary music magazine: https://hemisphereson.com Project Management / Wordpress / Front-end integration

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Education

  • CRMA, Concepteur Réalisateur Multimédia
    Les Gobelins
    2011
  • Bachelor's Degree in Distributed Environment Programming
    Université Paris Sud (Paris XI) | Alternance
    2009

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