Main skills

Technical leadership & team management (CTO)

leadership
cto
start-up
scale-up
medias
e-commerce
mobility
tech
innovation

Building of skilled experts team, transformation management, skills development

Team implementation support and mentoring (hands-on expertise and mentoring)

Stakeholder advisory, training, reporting & talks, technology evangelism

Tech architecture & pragmatic change management

Architecture
Microservices
API
Containers
Automation

Definition of infrastructure guidelines and urbanization

Architecture and solutions design, tech management, deployment, operations

Microservices and RESTful API patterns, containers (Docker), API-First architectures

Technical expertise

GitOps
CI/CD
Cloud
Kubernetes
IoT
ESP32
BLE
RubyOnRails
MQTT
RabbitMQ
Hardware

Software factory CI/CD, GitOops, move-to-cloud, Kubernetes

High-traffic hosting platforms (VoD, e-commerce, information medias)

IoT engineering smart home, embedded systems, smart home, electronics

Work experience

Vanbox
2023
European market

Founder & CEO

IoT
Innovation
Startup
Hardware
Software
Embedded
Entrepreneur
French Tech

Free2move
2021 · 1 year
Full remote (Paris)

Principal Engineer / Head of architecture

Scale-up
Kubernetes
Gitops
Micro-services
NodeJS
CI/CD
Management
Mobility

Principal Engineer - tech expertise and leadership

Leading software transformation to microservices (split the NodeJS monolith)

Define and build target cloud architecture (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps)

Training around 12-factor principles, DevOps advocate, best practices

Mobility Framework team manager (6 senior engineers)

Team created from scratch to handle the change management

Senior skilled engineers - software architecture (dev), cloud architecture (ops), change and projects support

Cross-teams coordination, tech stack evolutions, support


Ontex Digital Factory
2020 · 4 months
Paris (France)

Lead Architect

e-commerce
API first
Micro-services
Health Care
PHP/Symfony

Defined the next e-commerce subscription platform

Led microservices architecture as foundations for business ambitions

Contributed to an innovative IoT project (hygiene area)


FDJ Française des Jeux
2017 · 2.5 years
Paris (France)

Solutions Architect - Digital BU

Change management
Micro-services
CI/CD
PHP
MariaDB
NodeJS
MongoDB
Docker

Supervised and guided development teams (30 devs)

Monitoring tech-lead developers with weekly workshops

Organized and presented several internal talks - projects feedback, RabbitMQ messaging...

Managing project architecture defnition for day-to-day projects

Defined the target micro-services architecture

Defined and executed the migration to REST and micro-services patterns

Raised management and teams awareness of state-of-the-art patterns

Handled tech choices, data modeling, and execution along with teams

Set up continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) using Docker

Ensuring containerization with Docker and automated pipelines for projects

Provided guidance and skills development for Q/A and production teams

Bootstrapped and led reference teams on NodeJS/MongoDB (lean management)

Introduced the first NodeJS and MongoDB stack company-wide

Implementing full automation of the development process (build, test, deploy)

Ensuring full involvement of developers, testers, business experts and quality teams


Rue du commerce
2016 · 1 year
Paris (France)

Replatforming to microservices architect

E-commerce
Replatforming
Micro-services
CI/CD
PHP
Docker

Refined the transformation trajectory of the IT department, led the movement

Sensibilisation de la Direction par la cartographie et l'illustration des principes d'architecture

Mentorat des tech-leads et évengélisation permantente (ateliers hebdomadaires)

Diverses présentations effectuées (retours d'expérience, messaging temps-réel sur RabbitMQ, ...)

Automated and implemented CI/CD practices (on containers and private cloud)

Conversion des équipes à la production d'imges Docker pour la production

Backend-for-frontend pour les fronts - agrégation de services et séparation data/vue

Developed technical models for the new architecture

Développement de micro-services modèles pour l'exemple (Ruby, Sinatra, MongoDB)

Intégration des concepts dans les développements existants pour obtenir une démonstration concrète


FranceTV Numérique
2014 · 4 years
Paris (France)

Architect - VoD platform re-engineering

Medias
Replatforming
Micro-services
VoD
Push messaging
High traffic
CDN delivery

Led the design of the new replay platform, all the contents, 18-months project, several experts

Defined a new REST-API and micro-services-based architecture, orchestrated by our in-house scheduler

Studied and rationalized VoD business workflows, defined APIs, coached development teams(PHP/Symfony2)

Agile iterating on all project aspects from specifications to development towards continuous deployment

Successful production since Q2 2015, fully operational 300+ programs per day

Wrote the “rest-ftp-daemon” open source micro-service project

Initiated the global messaging system for realtime notifications (AMQP)

Connecting each platform of the Group (Pluzz, CultureBox, FranceTV Info/Sports/Education...)

Interacted with commercial partners (Molotov.tv, Orange...)

Led strategic collaboration on several projects across the Group

Defining the architecture workframe for Zoom (on-demand recommendation of content)

Managed architecture for the cross-products tagging system

Connected TV services upgrades, overhaul of the platform for channels websites


Société Générale
2013 · 6 months
Paris (France)

Hosting specialist - change management

Banking
Project coordination
Platform access security
DenyAll rWeb
ActivNetwork

Re-integrated the Crédit du Nord branch activity (integration and maintenance scopes L2/L3)

Studied convergence of Crédit du Nord and Société Générale solutions and technologies

Acquired leadership for ongoing integration projects, helped takeover for L2 and L3 support teams

Successfully built a seemless ecosystem between legacy and new teams

Transferred knowledge and documentation to each team on Société Générale side


SAFRAN / SNECMA
2012 · 3 months
Réau (France)

Consulting architect - network and security

Defence security
50k+ users
Cisco
Bluecoat

Ownership handover of network security skills from SNECMA branch to headquarters

Explored scope, methods and potential risks

Reverse engineering and back-documentation of main topics

Consolidation de diverses plateformes multi-sites

Brought internet expertise (email, DNS, network security and web filtering)


CANAL+
2011 · 1.5 years
Paris (France)

Architect - Video/VoD platform re-engineering

Media & broadcast
Architecture
Business workflows
R&D
Transcoding
Storage
Delivery

Urbanized multiple video-on-demand platforms for the Group, defined the target architecture

Proposed architecture rationalization for offers such as CanalSat, Canal+, CanalPlay Infinity and replay-tv (encoders, media provisioning)

Describing and modelling business processes for the entire VoD production stack, wrote technical foundations

Introduced micro-services and APIs (ingest, transcoding, file provisioning, monitoring)

Led the call for tenders for the workflow engine function

Coordinated RFI and RFP with 12 international media providers (English documents)

Organized proofs-of-concept for the top5, project in close cooperation with CTOs and top management

Managed the storage restructuring project within Diffusion branch (above 1 PB of data)

Technical advisory for transcoding storage, distribution and long-term archives

Leading the project team, defining specifications and horizontal/vertical scalability


Crédit du Nord, Société Générale
2010 · 1 year
Lille (France)

Internet and security architect

Banking
Platform architecture
High traffic
IP networking

Technical architecture and evolution of Customer Internet platform

Working with several several firewalls, reverse proxies, load balancers, IPS, Redhat/OpenBSD

HTTP expertise, caching, filtering, L7 routing through Apache mod_rewrite

Introduced methods and tools for configuration versionning and deployment

Defined hosting architecture for Mobile Internet services (customers of 7 branches/banks)

Implemented mobile-specific caching, protocols and compression

Revived staging platform to allow better testing and team work (same as production)


SNCF/BOLLORE
2009 · 6 months
Paris (France)

Architectire of onboard platform for TGV trains

Audit
Architecture
Embedded service portal
Rail industry
Ruby on rails
PHP

Defined and built a service platform providing internet access onboard TGV-Est trains

Audited the technical architecture proposed by the consortium Orange, Cap Gemini, Alstom, Eutelsat

Recommendations for updates and improvements leading to new commercial opportunities

Participated in the founding of the joint venture between Bollore-SNCF, a key French public area project

Defined technical functionnal architecture for onboard and ground-train link

Directed development of embedded-specific interfaces


FRANCE 24
2008 · 1 month
Paris (France)

Audit and content-delivery providers selection

Media & broadcast
High traffic plarform
CDN delivery
Akamai
Drupal

Audited dependencies between business-critical systems and CDN providers

hosting architecture optimization recommendations (Special Technical specs)


Reims & Chaumount Hospitals
2008 · 3 months
Reims (France)

Information system architect

Healthcare
Personal data security
National respositoy
Ruby on Rails
PKI

Setting up a system federating data for several hospitals, carrying out case studies and providing recommendation for technical architecture, security expertise, and workflow

Assisting the project office, calls for tender, facilitating developments


FRANCE 24
2007 · 6 months
Paris (France)

Web and medias strategy consultant

Media & broadcast
Project management
CDN delivery
Video streaming
Opensource

Lead the 2007 coverage of the French presidential election on the web

Leading the dedicated team -(moderators, translators, 20 international bloggers)

Media convergence trials (broadcaster, internet and television audience)

Live video streaming, realtime voting results, internet visitors reactions, text-number allowing audience interaction, 5 webcams in the newsrooms (98k+ visitors for both ballots)

Provided strategic support for the IT department

Strengthening the global image of France24 and in the blogosphere

Built the team and the methods around the required technical skills

Implemented various projects thereafter, within the channel's teams (Cannes Festival, general elections)

Conducted and wrote the request for proposal for the new web infrastructure


Itool Systems, SaaS editor
2001 · 5 years
Lille (France)

Co-founder and CTO of Itool Systems

Co-founder
Finance & accounting
Pure-player
Innovation
Business award
Management

Associate and co-founder, board member

Itool Systems creates and sells online business solutions for SMC and Professional Accounants

Launched portal itool.net (Prof accountants) and itool.com (SME market)

Innovation Reward achieved at the Accountants Annual Congress in 2001, IntraBlog Award in 2007.

Integrated and then absorbed Atomis

Architect and production executive

Designed billing infrastructure and online registration processes.

Deployed a robustness-oriented hosting cluster (20 servers over 4 sites) certified by IBM's SPC lab.

Reached great service availability avg 99,96% ranked n1 by ip-label in May 2005

Development team manager (5)

Team leader for the creation of Itool Compta, Itool Facto, Itool Scan, Itool GED, APG Facto, press routing solutions, data-exchange hub with partners.

Provided technological intelligence, ergonomics of applications, development methodology.


Atomis, Internet Services
2000 · 2 years
Lille (France)

Team leader, development of Itool Compta

asp/saas
php/mysql
framework
haute-dispo
métier
sécurité

Designed an online software suite targetting accountants

Built the Itool line of products - accounting, invoicing, digital documents management


Projects & opensource

VanboxDisruptive home automation solution for recreational converted vehicles and yachts

Start-up
French tech
Incubator
Innovation
IoT
ESP32
Electronics
Founder
Entrepreneur

Photofactoryweb platform for artists and photo enthusiasts

RubyOnRails
MongoDB
MinIO
Redis
Docker
Social auth

rbpmtechnical workflow manager to orchestrate RESTful microservices

Ruby
Micro-service
Opensource
Workflow management
PoC

rest-ftp-daemonindustrial-grade file transfer with a RESTful JSON API

Ruby
Micro-service
Opensource
File transfer
Production-grade

Manages heavy files transfers on FTP, sFTP, FTPs S3, (media files)

In production at France Télécisions since 2016 - transferring 300+ video files 2TB+ daily

pushydreal-time events propagation service from internal broker to partners

Ruby
Micro-service
Opensource
AMQP
Push messaging

In production at France Télévisions to propagate program events and metadata to VoD partners

service-graphmicro-service dependencies and graphs from Gitab repositories

Ruby
Micro-service
Opensource
Service map
PoC