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 – present: CTO and late cofounder at Ask for the moon, startup designing innovative knowledge management tools, marketed towards big industrial groups. We play with LLMs and ontologies to help information flow. Most recent funding round is 2.5M€.
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 logic 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 a robust audio ad blocker, for radios and podcasts: Adblock Radio. Open-sourced components on Github and described how it works. Gathered a community, received press coverage as well as hostile lawyer letters, but did not find a viable business model.
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 background and co-author of 8 patents. LLMs with PyTorch. NN with Keras, Tensorflow. Dataviz. During my PhD, caught evanescent signals with FFT, MUSIC, HHT. 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, and some Python. Also a bit of Go, C++ and Rust. Frequent OpenAPI player. On the frontend, developed a bit 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: January 19 2025
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