Main skills

Technical leadership & team management (CTO)

start-up
scale-up
mentoring
medias
e-commerce
mobility

Recruiting and structuring engineering teams, driving organizational change

Mentoring tech leads, hands-on contribution (code, architecture, code reviews)

Advisory to founders and CTOs, training, technical talks

Tech architecture & pragmatic change management

Architecture
Microservices
API
Docker
DevOps
Change management

Target architecture definition, systems mapping, migration roadmap

Technical oversight from design to production, end-to-end delivery

Microservices, RESTful APIs, Docker, API-First — implementation and team adoption

Technical expertise

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

CI/CD automation, GitOps, cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, observability

High-traffic platforms — VoD, e-commerce, news media (FranceTV, Canal+, FDJ)

IoT engineering, embedded systems, smart home electronics (ESP32, BLE, MQTT)

Work experience

Vanbox
2023
European market

Founder & CEO

IoT
Hardware
Embedded
ESP32
Firmware
Startup
Entrepreneur
French Tech

Smart IoT hub centralizing vehicle vital metrics — proprietary stack (ESP32 firmware, OTA updates, SaaS, mobile), TRL 8-9

Non-invasive water monitoring (no drilling), energy (Victron/BMS), solar, GPS — via onboard touchscreen and Cloud app

Embedded AI for real autonomy projection and anomaly diagnostics

Founder & CEO — DeepTech/IoT startup for nomadic living

Incubated at EuraTechnologies/Transalley; Stanford Innovation Program (2024)

Modular short-cycle production — in-house design, 3D-printed enclosures; managing a multidisciplinary team (electronics, mobile, UX/UI)

Commercial development — hardware kit (€590) + SaaS (€10/month); Victron, Truma, Webasto integrations

"Innovative company" award at Vanlife Expo Bordeaux 2025; 2026–2028 roadmap — European markets, boating, North America


Free2move
2021
1 year
Full remote (Paris)

Principal Engineer / Head of architecture

Scale-up
Kubernetes
GitOps
Micro-services
DDD
Cloud-native
Platform Engineering
CI/CD
Management
AWS
Mobility

Principal Engineer - tech expertise and leadership

Led microservices transformation using DDD to decompose the NodeJS monolith

Built the target cloud-native architecture (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps)

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

Mobility Framework — Platform Engineering team manager (6 senior engineers)

Built the Mobility Framework team from scratch to drive the transformation

Senior engineers spanning software architecture (dev), cloud architecture (ops), and project support

Drove cross-team coordination, tech stack evolution, and support


FDJ Française des Jeux
2017
2.5 years
Paris (France)

Solutions Architect - Digital BU

Change management
Micro-services
Event-driven
DDD
API-first
CI/CD
Docker
MongoDB
Mentoring

Supervised and guided development teams (30 devs)

Mentored tech leads via weekly workshops and internal talks (architecture patterns, event-driven design, RabbitMQ...)

Owned architecture decisions on day-to-day projects

Defined the target micro-services architecture

Led the migration to REST, micro-services, and domain-driven design patterns

Raised management awareness of state-of-the-art patterns; handled tech choices, data modeling, and execution with teams

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

Containerized projects with Docker, automated CI/CD pipelines; upskilled Q/A and production teams

Bootstrapped and led reference teams on NodeJS/MongoDB

Introduced the 1st NodeJS and MongoDB stack company-wide

Full dev automation (build, test, deploy) with cross-team alignment — devs, testers, business, QA


Rue du commerce
2016
1 year
Paris (France)

Replatforming to microservices architect

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

Defined the IT transformation roadmap and drove adoption

On-boarded management to architecture principles through system mapping

Mentored tech leads via weekly workshops; delivered internal talks on architecture patterns, RabbitMQ messaging and more

Set up CI/CD on Docker and reference micro-services development

Onboarded teams onto Docker; implemented backend-for-frontend — service aggregation and data/view separation

Built reference micro-services (Ruby, Sinatra, MongoDB) via Strangler Fig — integrated into existing codebase for progressive migration


FranceTV Numérique
2014
4 years
Paris (France)

Architect - VoD platform re-engineering

VoD
Replatforming
Micro-services
Event-driven
API-first
High traffic
CDN delivery
Push messaging
Open source

Led the 18-month redesign of the VoD/replay platform

Defined an API-first, micro-services architecture with RESTful APIs (Strangler Fig), orchestrated by our in-house scheduler

Rationalized VoD workflows with domain-driven design, defined APIs, coached dev teams (PHP/Symfony2)

Agile delivery — in production since Q2 2015, 300+ programs/day

Designed the event-driven architecture (realtime notifications across platforms, AMQP)

All Group platforms (Pluzz, CultureBox, FranceTV Info/Sports/Education) and partners (Molotov.tv, Orange)

Lead architect on several strategic projects across the Group

Architecure framework for Zoom (on-demand content recommendations)

Managed architecture for the cross-products tagging system

Led Connected TV services evolution and channel websites overhaul


CANAL+
2011
1.5 years
Paris (France)

Architect - Video/VoD platform re-engineering

Media & broadcast
VoD
Redesign
Business workflows
Transcoding
Storage
R&D

Defined target architecture and rationalized VoD platforms across the Group

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

Mapped and modelled 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 (in English)

Organized proofs-of-concept for the top-5 candidates, in close cooperation with CTOs and top management

Managed the storage restructuring project within Diffusion (>1 PB)

Contributed as lead architect to storage architecture, distribution and archiving

Led project team, defined specifications and scalability strategy


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

Internet and security architect

Banking
Platform architecture
High traffic
Security
Mobile internet
Load balancing

Lead architect and technical expert on the Customer Internet platform evolution

Managed infrastructure stack: firewalls, reverse proxies, load balancers, IPS (Redhat/OpenBSD)

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

Introduced methods and tools for configuration versioning and deployment

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

Implemented mobile-specific caching, protocols and compression

Revived staging platform for better testing and team work (iso production)


SNCF/BOLLORE
2009
6 months
Paris (France)

Architecture of onboard platform for TGV trains

Rail industry
Architecture
Audit
Connectivity
Onboard systems

Defined onboard and ground-train link technical architecture for TGV-Est trains

Audited consortium architecture (Orange, Cap Gemini, Alstom, Eutelsat)

Delivered optimization recommendations & new commercial opportunities

Directed development of embedded-specific interfaces

Architected the onboard service platform and contributed to structuring the Bolloré-SNCF joint venture

Flagship project of France's national investment plan — internet access onboard TGV-Est trains


BMC2
2007
today
France













Independent Consultant - Solutions Architect

Consulting
IS architecture
Healthcare
Media & broadcast
Network security
CDN delivery
Audit
Defence security
Banking
Change management
e-commerce
Micro-services
IoT

Reims & Chaumont Hospitals — IS Architect

Designed a federated IS architecture for two hospitals — security expertise, workflows design

Advised the project office, wrote calls for tender, monitored progress

FRANCE 24 — Audit and content-delivery providers selection

Audited dependencies between business-critical systems and CDN providers

Delivered hosting architecture optimization recommendations (CCTP)

SAFRAN / SNECMA — Network and security architect

Network security expertise for the SNECMA-to-Group handover

Reverse engineering and back-documentation of main topics

Consolidated multi-site platforms; internet expertise: email, DNS, network security, web filtering

Société Générale — Hosting specialist, change management

Re-integrated the Crédit du Nord branch integration

Studied convergence of solutions and technologies; acquired leadership for integration projects, helped takeover for L2/L3 support teams

Built a seamless ecosystem — transferred knowledge and documentation to all Société Générale teams

Ontex Digital Factory — Lead Architect

Defined the next e-commerce subscription platform — led microservices architecture as foundations for business ambitions

Provided architecture expertise on an innovative IoT project (hygiene market)

Doctena - Architecture expertie for inter-subsidiary data exchanges

Design and mentoring for event-driven architecture


FRANCE 24
2007
6 months
Paris (France)

Web and medias strategy consultant

Media & broadcast
Live streaming
Project management
Digital strategy

Led the 2007 French presidential election coverage online — 98k+ visitors across both ballots

Led dedicated team (20 international bloggers, moderators, translators); live streaming, real-time results, audience SMS interaction, 5 newsroom webcams

Strategic advisory to the IT department — team setup, international web positioning, wrote RFP for new web infrastructure

Media convergence strategy (broadcaster, internet, TV audience); launched internal projects (Cannes Festival, general elections)


Itool Systems, SaaS editor
2001
6 years
Lille (France)



Co-founder and CTO of Itool Systems

Co-founder
SaaS
Finance & accounting
Management
Business award

Associate and co-founder, board member

Built on Atomis (Lille, 2000) — SaaS management suite for accountants and SMEs (accounting, invoicing, document management); portals itool.net and itool.com

Innovation Award at the National Accountants Congress (2001)

Architect and production owner

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

99.96% avg availability, ranked nr1 by ip-label (May 2005)

Development team manager (5)

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


Projects & opensource

VanboxSmart home automation for converted recreational vehicles and yachts

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

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)

Used in production by FranceTV 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

Used in production by FranceTV to propagate program events and metadata to VoD partners

service-graphmicro-service dependencies and graphs from GitLab repositories

Ruby
Micro-service
Opensource
Service map
PoC