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Stéphane SchmidelySS

Stéphane Schmidely

Tech Audit & Project Takeover | Freelance CTO

€700/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Stéphane

You have the vision and ideas to go further, but between your teams and your strategy, no one is making the connection; not for lack of skill, but for lack of time, perspective, and overview.

I start by talking with your teams, your clients, you. By immersing myself in everyone's daily life, I build an overall view at the intersection of your vision and the ground reality, and I can reveal what's holding things back: technical audits, hidden debt, friction no one questions, opportunities no one connects.

From there, I build - a tool, a process, a product - forged in contact with your teams so that it fits their reality, and designed to anchor and evolve without me. Your teams gain autonomy, you retain control.

What often triggers a first conversation:
→ Your tools are no longer keeping up with your growth
→ A project in mind for months, no one to lead it
→ Something is stuck between teams without anyone knowing why
→ A service provider is no longer responsive or an application needs to be taken over

Ex-CTO, 10 years of experience across various contexts - e-commerce, tourism, fintech, education. Each experience has sharpened my eye and my ability to decode what's happening between a leader's vision and the ground reality.

Results: 8 hours/week saved, load time ÷4, product launched in 5 months, 4 applications internalized.

Stack: PHP/Symfony, Python/FastAPI, TypeScript

30 minutes to explore your challenges and see what an overview can unlock
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Japan Experience
    Lead Developer → CTO
    TRAVEL AND TOURISM
    February 2022 - December 2025 (3 years and 10 months)
    Paris, France
    ☰ Steering the complete project internalization
    Managing the technical and business handover with the service provider, ensuring a strategic and operational transition from the start.

    ☰ Project Management
    Technical and business coordination with the project team on high-value subjects, as well as technical monitoring (spikes, workshops, technical reviews, QA, and deployments).

    ☰ Operational and Technical Monitoring of the Platform
    Correction & evolution of infrastructure and applications during daily run management, handling emergencies, or as part of sprints.

    ☰ Reporting & Performance
    Implementation and maintenance of technical and business reports with daily indicator monitoring.

    ☰ Technical Team Management
    Supervising 5 developers, a project manager, and a deputy CTO, including the recruitment process.

    ☰ Technical Stack:
    - 2x client sites on Drupal 11
    - 1x client site on NextJS
    - 1x back-office on Symfony 7.x
    - 1x API on Symfony 7.x
    - GCP with Kubernetes, Helm, Datadog
    Drupal DevOps Project Management PHP Symfony
  • EURO-FRANCE MEDIAS
    FullStack Developer
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    August 2021 - November 2021 (3 months)
    Paris, France
    ☰ Steering the takeover of various projects
    Handover from the previous provider, technical onboarding, deployment refactoring, new feature development, and implementation of technical & business fixes.

    ☰ Quality Assurance
    Validation of deliverables.

    ☰ Project Management
    Technical and business coordination with the client.

    ☰ Technical Stack
    - AWS Fargate, EC2, OVH, Cloudflare
    - Wordpress
    PHP DevOps Amazon Web Services
  • Collège des Bernardins
    FullStack Developer
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    October 2016 - November 2021 (5 years and 1 month)
    Paris, France
    ☰ Infrastructure & Operations
    Management and maintenance of deployments, monitoring of performance and security.

    ☰ Application Development
    Technical and business evolution of websites.

    ☰ Skills Transfer
    Technical training for the service provider and support during client meetings.

    ☰ Technical Stack
    - Drupal 7
    - Amazon EC2, OVH, Ansible, Cloudflare
    Drupal DevOps Amazon Web Services Ansible Cloudflare

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Education

  • Master Information, Language & Programming Track
    Université Paris Diderot
    2016
    La maîtrise des langages informatiques est indispensable pour un informaticien. Ce parcours a comme objectif d’enseigner les concepts qui sont à la base à la fois des langages de programmation et des langages de données. Le but est moins d’enseigner... (extrait de la page de présentation du Master)
  • University Diploma in Technology in Computer Science
    IUT Paris Descartes
    2013
    DUT Informatique / PPD & stage de 2 mois Développement et gestion de projet pour le développement du site d'Interplast France

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