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, 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 (LPP), École Polytechnique, Paris. I compared rotation 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.
Languages and computer skills
Spoken: French (native), English (fluent) and German (to reactivate).
Backend development: Strong background in NodeJS, and some Python. Do a bit of Go, C++ 14/17, Rust and tamed MongoDB, SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL + Nginx. Frequent OpenAPI player.
Data science: LLMs with PyTorch. NN with Keras, Tensorflow. Dataviz with Pivot, Apache Zeppelin & Superset. During my PhD, caught evanescent signals with FFT, MUSIC, HHT. Open sourced work in Landmark (Shazam) acoustic fingerprinting. Co-author of 8 patents.
Devops: Got my hands dirty with Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana and Arch linux btw… Ran an internal ISO27001 certification. During the day, I find my way in Azure Cloud, but at night I self-host most of my personal web services.
Frontend development: Strong knowledge of vanilla JS. Experience with React/MobX, Typescript/Flow. Also played with WebAssembly and WebRTC.
Education
2020: Numa Nouvelle Vague biweekly workshops, to become a better manager.
2013 (2 months): 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 skiing, a fun old-fashioned technique with free heels. Also touring.
Living with a lower carbon footprint. Imagining a post-fossil fuels society.
Last update: September 20 2024
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