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Description

CTPO for startups and scale-ups (20-120 people), missions of 2 to 18 months.

With over 20 years of experience in technological leadership, product innovation, and scale-up, I support companies in building and growing high-performing Tech & Product teams, while ensuring scalable, resilient, and highly available architectures.

As CTO & CTPO at Jolimoi, I took the company from its inception to over $50M in revenue, from 3 to 70 people, by structuring cross-functional teams (Tech, Product, Data, Infrastructure), training 3 Engineering Managers internally, and maintaining 99.999% uptime. My expertise covers team organization and management, software craftsmanship, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and building a data platform.

What I bring:

. CTO & CTPO Leadership: structuring and scaling tech and product teams, combining innovation and execution

. Product Strategy & Roadmap: aligning tech with business objectives through an iterative and data-driven approach

. High-Performance Engineering: designing robust cloud infrastructures, automated solutions

. AI Transformation: deploying an AI strategy with real impact monitoring

Among my recent missions: structuring dev/product/QA interactions, complete redesign of delivery processes, restructuring tech teams, deploying an AI strategy with monitoring implementation.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Lille (up to 10km), Bordeaux (up to 10km), Lyon (up to 10km)

ShapeAndShip.ai
Fractional CTO (transition mission)
January 2025 - Today (1 year and 6 months)
Paris, France
CTPO for startups and scale-ups (20 to 120 people). Missions of 2 to 18 months, at key moments: pre-funding, post-funding, AI transformation, tech reorganization.

My missions:

▸ Transition CTPO, B2B tech scale-ups
6 to 18-month engagements to structure tech, product, and organization.

▸ CTPO Consulting, early & growth stage startups
Short missions on targeted topics: technical strategy, product roadmap, team structuring, AI transformation framing, recruitment, management

Specifically:

15-month mission - 40 people tech/product
- AI Transformation within tech and product teams, with impact monitoring
- Building the management layer: recruitment, coaching of EMs, transitions from IC to manager then Head of
- Predictable delivery: engineering metrics (DORA, cycle time), prioritization rituals, product/tech/QA alignment
- Breaking down silos between product and engineering
- AI Roadmap: MCP, Autonomous Agents
CTPO AI Transformation Team Management
Jolimoi
Co-Founder / CTPO
September 2017 - February 2025 (7 years and 5 months)
• Co-founder, from 0 to over $50M in revenue, through a product-led growth approach and technical leadership.

• Building and leading cross-functional teams of over 20 people (Data, Infrastructure, Development, Product). Transitioning the company from 4 co-founders to 70 people across tech, ops, sales, and customer success.

• Designing highly available cloud-native architectures on AWS and Firebase (Vue.js, TypeScript, SQL, dbt), with minimal downtime.

• Building the data stack from scratch: real-time analytics, business dashboards, and data pipelines feeding product and commercial decisions.

• Leading AI transformation and enterprise automation, gaining efficiency on key business processes.

• Creating the engineering management layer from scratch: recruiting and mentoring 3 EMs / Heads of; implementing structured 1:1s, career ladders, and internal training programs.
Team Management CTO CTPO
SoFizz & Aetys
Co-Founder / CTO
May 2014 - September 2017 (3 years and 4 months)
Aetys:

Led the development of educational applications with over 500K downloads.
Managed the product lifecycle and technical team, focusing on app performance and cross-platform support via the Cordova SDK.

SoFizz:

Created and developed a social mobile application to connect women around shared activities.
Responsible for end-to-end product development, including marketing and community management, using Ionic and AngularJS.
CTPO