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Olivier Maléa

Transitional CTO · Senior Software Engineer

€850/day
Nice, FR
8-15 years
Digital Transformation
IT Strategy
CTO as a Service
Transitional CTO
Software as a Service (SaaS)

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About Olivier

Transitional CTO | Cloud SaaS & AI Digital Products – Foundation · Acceleration · Excellence

I am a transitional CTO, specializing in Cloud, AI & SaaS products for SMEs and mid-sized companies, and I support your teams from the foundation to the acceleration and excellence of your digital products.

I primarily work remotely from an optimized setup to maximize impact, with occasional travel in Europe (kick-offs, client workshops, strategic reviews, and key team alignment moments) on an agreed schedule and pre-approved travel budget.

**Foundation**: You have an idea or an early-stage product. I help you lay solid foundations: scalable cloud architecture, value stream-oriented organization, initial delivery processes, and technology choices that avoid future technical debt.



**Acceleration**: Your product exists, but growth is putting the tech under strain (debt, slowness, incidents, cloud costs). I audit architecture and organization, reduce technical debt, optimize your platform (Kubernetes, FinOps, SRE), and significantly improve velocity, quality, and MTTR.



**Excellence**: You aim for a "best in class" level (high requirements for reliability, security, compliance, data/AI). I assist you in industrializing your platform, optimizing costs, strengthening governance, and empowering your technical leaders.


Some concrete results:
- 35% reduction in annual cloud costs, while improving scalability and resilience.
- +35% team productivity (DORA metrics, cycle time, deployments).
- 40% reduction in deployment times and 65% reduction in MTTR on SaaS platforms.

I speak business and tech, I work with the CEO as well as the teams, and I prioritize execution over slides.
My goal: that your cloud & AI digital product is reliable, profitable, and that your teams are capable of continuing at the highest level after my mission.
Consulting and Audits
Software Publishing
Digital Business Models
Environmental and Sustainable Development
Digital and IT Services

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Olivier Maléa Conseil & Audit
    Transitional CTO / Independent Tech Consultant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    January 2026 - Today (5 months)
    Nice, France
    Positioning as a transitional CTO for startups and mid-sized companies (6-18 month missions, remote).

    Prospecting and qualifying missions, structuring a service offering (tech audit, transition management, team coaching).

    Continuous skills update (technological watch, architecture, leadership, AI, etc.) and preparation of a book on tech leadership.
    Transitional CTO Transition Management Digital Transformation B2B SaaS Remote Team Management
  • Scale‑up SaaS B2B
    Chief Technology Product Officer
    AUTOMOBILE
    February 2024 - January 2026 (1 year and 11 months)
    Biot, France
    End-to-end product & engineering management

    Key achievements:

    Led the design and development of the core technology platform: balancing technical excellence with a smooth user experience, with an architecture designed to support customer base growth.

    Defined and deployed a comprehensive product strategy aligned with market needs, enabling prioritization of the right topics and measurable improvement in customer satisfaction and retention.

    Established strong product-engineering-sales alignment: systematically transforming field feedback into actionable technical roadmaps, reducing delivery cycles for new features.

    Structured watch on technological trends (AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems) and integrated relevant innovations into the roadmap to maintain a modern and competitive stack.

    Impact:

    Direct contribution to preparing the platform for sustainable growth, through strategic technical decisions and strong cross-functional collaboration.

    Reusable experience in transitional CTO roles: rapid diagnosis, (re)definition of tech/product strategy, and team alignment around an executable roadmap.
    B2B SaaS CTO Digital Transformation Transition Management Technology Strategy
  • Opportunity
    Chief Technology Product Officer
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    June 2023 - January 2024 (7 months)
    Nice, France
    Reorganization of the engineering team (value-stream model, Reverse Conway’s Law)

    Key achievements:

    Engineering reorganization: Transition from a functional structure to two autonomous product teams organized by value stream, inspired by the Spotify model (squads, chapters, guilds). Results: increased accountability, fewer inter-team dependencies, accelerated decisions.

    Reduction of technical debt: Architecture audit, targeted refactoring plan, approximately 25% improvement in key code quality indicators.

    Platform refactoring to Kubernetes and "right-sized" microservices: Containerized infrastructure adapted to actual needs, approximately 20% reduction in infrastructure costs, and better management of load peaks.

    Implementation of DevOps practices (CI/CD, monitoring, alerting): Approximately 35% reduction in incident frequency and reduction of MTTR from 45 minutes to ~12 minutes.

    FinOps optimization: Rationalization of cloud resource usage, elimination of waste, ~18% monthly cost reduction with improved performance.

    Leadership & knowledge transfer:

    Planned 6-month transition from CTO role to internal tech lead: mentoring and knowledge transfer, ensuring continuity and reducing the risk of dependency on a key person.

    Impact:

    Engineering organization transformed into autonomous, high-velocity teams, with measurable gains in delivery speed, quality, and efficiency.
    Digital Transformation Leadership FinOps B2B SaaS Transitional CTO
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Education

  • Engineering Degree, Computer Science - Systems and Software Architecture and Engineering
    EiCNAM Engineering School of CNAM Paris
    2018
    Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique - Architecture et Ingénierie des Systèmes et Logiciels
  • University Diploma in Technology (DUT), Marketing Techniques
    University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
    1999
    DUT, Techniques de Commercialisation

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Skill set

Agile Project Management
Agile Team Coaching
Change and Transformation Management
KPIs and Metric Definition and Monitoring
IT Architecture
IT Strategy
IT Project Management
Talent Management and Employee Development
Innovation Management
IT Architecture
Multidisciplinary Team Management
Leadership

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