Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

I am Ladislas, a biotech engineer by training, and I fell into robotics, embedded systems, IoT, specialized education, and medico-social fields 12 years ago when I launched Leka (leka.io).

Over these 12 years, from CEO/CTO to Project Manager within a large group after our acquisition, I have built solid experience in product development in a highly demanding environment, with a comprehensive vision of the steps, challenges, and risks encountered, from the initial idea to commercial launch.

I am available to support you in the overall management of your projects:

- Strategic and technical audit

- Idea generation, prototyping, initial product iterations

- Choice of embedded and mobile technical stack

- Preparation and review of technical specifications

- Search and selection of external service providers such as mechanical and electronic design offices

- Formalization of the manufacturing file

- Search and selection of industrial partners

- Finished product certification

I would also be delighted to assist with much more technical and hands-on aspects:

- Project software architecture

- Benchmarking of different platforms, MCUs, active components

- Toolchain selection (GCC + CMake), project structuring, development tools (VSCode + plugins)

- RTOS vs. bare-metal choice

- Setup of unit tests "host + target hardware" (Google Tests + boost-ext/ut)

- CI/CD on Github with unit tests, functional tests, sanitizers, static analysis (Sonarcloud)

- Code reviews

- Coaching and training of teams on "modern C++"

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Leka @ APF France handicap
Leka Project Manager
EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
March 2019 - Today (7 years and 3 months)
Vannes, France
At Leka Inc., our mission is to help exceptional children live exceptional lives. To provide parents and therapists with a tool that will stimulate, motivate & engage their children through out therapy, we developed Leka. As CEO & CTO of Leka, my mission consisted of:
- Management - Managed a team of up to 10 persons including developers, engineers, business developers and researchers
- Fundraising - Raised 1M€ in equity & 500k€ in grants (PIA, CIN, Wilco, etc.)
- Sales / Product Launch - Launched the first version of our product (Leka Alpha) in January 2018. After 9 months, Leka Alpha was used by more than 400 children in 12 countries, 50 special schools & 5 research centers
- Communication / Public Speaking - Represented the company at important events worldwide: CES, BETT Show, Forbes 30 Under 30, Founders Forum, etc.
- Product Development / Manufacturing - Assembled the first hardware prototypes (electronics & mechanics) and managed the team of hardware engineers & designers. Handled the relation with our manufacturing partners, worked on PRD, functional & technical specs
- Software Development - Developed Leka's embedded software in C++ using ChibiOS RTOS. Developed the first versions of our iOS companion application in Swift using BLE. Managed dev team, implemented scrum & agile methodologies, development processes, unit testing & continuous integration
Internet des objets Robotique C++ Product management Swift Gestion de projet SwiftUI Méthode agile Kanban
Leka SAS
Co-founder, CEO & CTO
EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
February 2013 - February 2019 (6 years)
Paris, France
C/C++ Systèmes embarqués Robotique Education
Galactic
R&D Fermentation Engineer
June 2012 - September 2012 (3 months)
Belgium
R&D Laboratory - Referent Mr. Benoît Moreau, R&D Director Galactic is one of the leaders of Poly Lactic Acid production from beetroot sugar. My mission was to investigate a new method of PLA production from micro-algae and run benchmarks to compare it to solution in place. I had to develop new analytical methods for the tests. Micro-algae were treated with pure and diluted acids. The glucose generated was then used for PLA pilot production.