CV

PhD, R&D, business-minded software engineering

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Email me at [firstname]@[lastname].fr – LinkedIn – Github – Publications

Work experience

Nov 2022 – Mar 2025: CTO and late cofounder at Ask for the moon, startup designing innovative AI knowledge management tools, marketed towards big industrial groups, including Airbus. Played with LLMs and ontologies to help information flow. Structured the tech team as the business grew.

Apr 2019 – Oct 2022: Software engineer, then tech lead (2019), then R&D software architect (2021) at Streamroot / Lumen, a multinational company specialized in digital content delivery at scale, using edge delivery algorithms and enabling greener operations.

Dec 2017 – Mar 2019: Lead developer at Watcha, Lyon, young editor of a unified collaboration tool for businesses focusing on data governance.

Oct 2015 – Mar 2019: Creator of an AI audio analysis tool, for radios and podcasts: Adblock Radio. Open-sourced components and described how it works. Gathered a community, received press coverage as well as hostile lawyer letters!

Oct 2011 – Apr 2015: PhD degree in nuclear fusion research, Plasma Physics Laboratory (Polytechnique) and CEA IRFM (Cadarache). Ran a numerical analysis to compare phenomena between experiments & simulation.

Apr 2011 – Sept 2011: Work placement with ESTEC (European Space Agency) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Assessed radio blackout numerically during a high velocity atmospheric re-entry.

Nov 2007 – Apr 2008: Military service with the Parisian fire brigade. Grew up as a person by providing assistance in sometimes difficult situations.

Skills

Management: Communication in French (native) & English (fluent).
People: recruited high-level technical people, structured teams, implemented rituals, managed objectives, while adapting the management posture.
Projects: managed R&D and IP, built industrial consortiums and worked to finance innovation.

Data science: Significant R&D and AI background and co-author of 8 patents. LLMs with PyTorch. Neural networks with Keras, Tensorflow. Dataviz. Experience with signal processing on evanescent signals. Open sourced work in Landmark (Shazam) acoustic fingerprinting.

Devops: Conducted team improvement in code practices. Organized cybersecurity audits and compliance roadmaps. Ran an internal ISO27001 certification. Played with Kubernetes in Azure Cloud, while staying cloud-agnostic and deployable on-premises.

Fullstack development: Strong background in NodeJS. Experience with Python. Also a bit of Go, C++ and Rust. Frequent OpenAPI player. On the frontend, developed with React, WebAssembly and WebRTC.

Education

2020: Numa Nouvelle Vague biweekly workshops, to become a better manager.

2013: Stanford Ignite program, Paris. An intensive program to learn the business fundamentals necessary to succeed in any entrepreneurial venture.

2010 – 2011: Engineering degree + Research master, Supaero, Toulouse. Major in aeronautics, fluid mechanics.

2007 – 2011: Engineering degree, École polytechnique, Paris. Multidisciplinary Master Degree, major in Mechanical Engineering.

2005 – 2007: Classes Préparatoires MPSI-PSI*, Stanislas, Paris.

2005: Scientific A-levels, Saint Jean de Passy High School, Paris.

Other interests

Telemark, a fun and challenging ski technique with free heels. Also touring.
Living with a lower carbon footprint. Imagining a post-fossil fuels society.

Last update: April 15 2025
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