Description

Experienced tech leader with 15+ years driving engineering and product teams across startups and scale-ups. I specialize in digital strategy, technical architecture, recruitment, and scaling organizations. Strong focus on high-availability platforms, consumer trust, and ROI-driven initiatives.

Key Skills & Focus Areas:

- Technical leadership & C-level reporting (CTO, Executive Committee)

- Team management & hiring (Engineering, Product)

- Scalable cloud/server architecture (incl. high-traffic TV streaming, marketplaces, white-label SaaS)

- Digital strategy, KPI/OKRs, agile methods (Scrum, ShapeUp, Tribes/Squads)

- Information Systems governance & budget ownership with CFO

- Internationalization strategies, including complex/regulated markets

- GDPR, PSD2, and e-reputation management

- SEO, predictive profiling algorithms & marketing automation

- UX optimization, abandoned cart recovery & conversion improvement

- PHP/Symfony expert with deep backend architecture experience

- Domains: Art, E-commerce, Streaming, SaaS (B2B & B2C), Energy, Private Equity, Audio

Passionate about building resilient teams, future-proof platforms, and aligning tech with business impact.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Freelance
CTPO - VP of engineering
January 2019 - Today (7 years and 5 months)
Paris, France
• IT/Product recruitment, Management, Industrialization
• Process, Communication
• Shape Up implementation/OKRs/KPI, Business leaded organization
• Agile Scrum - Squad organization
• Risk Management
• Digital and ROI Strategy, Business Intelligence
• Audit, GDRP (RGPD in french) compliant
• Financial and payment flow, DSP 2 compliant (wallet, KYC, marketplace...)
• IT Architecture, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & AWS
• Symfony / PHP / API / ElasticSearch
• DevOps, Automate CI/CD
• SEO, content architecture & linking
• AI : Tensor Flow U.S.E, ChatGPT API model for Company (train/fine-tuning...), dataset extract and qualification
PROMEE - Teksial - ENGIE
CTO
January 2017 - November 2018 (1 year and 10 months)
Paris, France
Teksial is a subsidiary of Engie specializing in energy efficiency services. It manages operations related to the Energy Savings Certificates (CEE) scheme in France, helping clients reduce energy consumption and benefit from government incentives.

- DSI (CIO) from 05/2017 to 03/2018 for CIO replacement
- Build of a technical team and Internalization of technical projects
- IT recruitment and management
- Bring Agile Scrum and DevOps methods in traditional company
- Digital Strategy: WhiteLabel, Business Bringer and multi sites architecture
- SEO
- DevOps Google Cloud
- RESTful API
- IT budget with CFO
- GDPR / RGPD Compliant
Expertissim
CTO & VP of engineering
April 2015 - January 2017 (1 year and 9 months)
Paris, France
After an industrial accident Expertissim was looking for a new CTO, In this context I built a new technical team from scratch, regain control of the platform without existing documentation and solve important problems in SEO and performances/High traffic (TV show).

VP of engineering - Looking the business with technical eye :
- Member of Direction Committee
- Technical projet management (Scurm Master)
- Internationalization South Europe
- Recruitment and construction of a full technical team from scratch in a difficult context
- Product Manager recruitment and training (AGILE Scrum) for Product Management and act on e-reputation problematic and community manager
- Symfony 2 training of technical staff
- Important ROI strategy 50K€/years saved in process refactoring and in near futur 20K€/years saved in server architecture with Google Cloud Platform
- Marketplace Architecture & Strategy with payment and financial flows problematics
- SEO strategy : Content, semantics with very new Google recommendations : Json-LD, link's mesh, UX, Extreme performances
- Symfony Live 2015 talk : "ElasticSearch integration on Symfony2 Platform"
- SEA management and technical implementation : Google Adwords, Criteo
- UX Design & Purchase Workflow for improve conversion rate
- Predictive algorithm : Build of a complete Profiling internal solution for behavioral marketing

CTO & IT Architect :
- Server and software architect : Nginx/PHP/Varnish/Redis/RabbitMQ/PostgreSQL/MySQL
- high loading performance improvement (by 10)
- SEO technicals involvement : architecture, perfomances, json-ld
- DevOps : Docker / Ansible
- Clean Architecture, as a micro service model layer vendors uncouple from the Sf2 apps
- High traffic server architecture to endure all TV show, never failing, max at 2500 "instant" users according to Google Analytics
- Pair programming for knowledge transmission
- Scalability Test with Siege
- Tests refactoring, PHPUnit