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Yann Richard

Freelance CTO | IT Structuring & Scaling for SMEs

€800/day
Lyon, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Yann

With 20 years of experience in various tech fields, I have always worked for startups.
I now support SMEs in their missions in several ways:

Technical Audit
Duration: 1 to 2 weeks
Analysis of the existing system, delivery of strengths/weaknesses and areas for improvement

MVP
Duration: 2 to 3 months
Assistance in creating a prototype to showcase a product.

Part-time CTO
Duration: 1 to 3 days / week
Long-term support, assistance with structuring, architecture, and recruitment.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • CirculaCar
    Part-time CTO / Software Architect
    AUTOMOBILE
    December 2025 - April 2026 (4 months)
    Craponne, France
    Helping team to set up software factory and create configuration management for embedded software.
    Created CI pipeline to generate STM32 binaries, adding binary patching for configuration management
    Created UI tool relying on patching management for easier use
    Architecture C/C++ DevOps CI/CD Python
  • Exotec
    Software Operations Excellence Director
    LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
    March 2024 - June 2025 (1 year and 3 months)
    Lyon, France
    ✔ Service structuring (40 people, 5 teams: Infrastructure, DevSecOps, QA, Data and Reliability)
    ✔ Cloud (AWS) & onPremise infrastructure
    ✔ Products reliability (C++/Python/Java)
    ✔ Datalake (AWS Athena, S3)
    Data Engineer AWS QA AWS Athena Director
  • NAVYA
    Services Software Director
    TRANSPORTATION
    April 2023 - December 2023 (8 months)
    Lyon, France
    ✔ Service structuring (5 teams, 3 in Paris and 2 in Lyon)
    ✔ Roadmap definition for all supervision, simulation and mapping tools
    Agile Methodology Golang Java Docker Kubernetes

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Education

  • Degree in multimedia informatics
    Université Bordeaux I
    2002
    Degree in multimedia informatics
  • Degree in mathematics and informatics
    Université Blaise Pascal
    2001
    Degree in mathematics and informatics

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