Engineer - innovation & digital industry
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MSc, computer science, generalist engineer with a large record of industrial achievements. Shrewed at innovation and its funding (academic partnerships, startups / scaleups).
Passionate about computing, Open Source and electronics since childhood, my professional practice has flourished in the Linux and Web ecosystem (20 years) and thrived recently in artificial intelligence (inferencing / training of models at scale).
Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France Certificate
Key competencies
- "Hands-on" manager, architect of complex products - Linux, web, IoT, containerisation, orchestrators, DevOps & MLOps, critical QoS, audio & video streaming, natural language processing, signal processing
- Operational and technical management - Agility, CI-CD, DevSecOps
- Strategic management of R&D innovation, product strategy, innovation funding
- Distributed architectures, metal / cloud, High Performance Computing, Machine Learning
Professional experience
Director of Engineering - LinTO Product Manager
LINAGORA
180 employees - 02/2018 - Present (5 years)
www.linagora.com | www.linto.ai
- Supervision of engineering and product teams, methods and operations.
- Architect, technology leader.
- Specialist developer: Distribution & scaling of micro-services (machine learning), Edge AI browser (tensorflow, WASM)
- Research projects, labeling (10M€ - BPI, ANR, PIA, Region...)
- External facing technologist for Ministeries, European Commission. Scientific publications, speaker (Las Vegas CES, VoiceTech Paris, SXSW, MWC Barcelona, Open Source Experience).
CTO
MEDIAMEETING
220 employees - 02/2015 - 02/2018 (3 years, 1 month)
www.mediameeting.fr
- Digital strategic pivot, industrialization of processes after fundraising (5M€)
- Creation of R&D, engineering, web teams, methods and operations
- Operational management of client projects, integrated web agency, MOE and MOA providers
- Infrastructure migration to Google Cloud Platform, implementation of global and real-time audience tracking (Timeseries, Google BigQuery)
- Design, development and management of the production of IoT (Embedded Linux electronics) dedicated to media distribution, web platform for content management - Retail (Intermarché group), Carglas (ruggedized post with touchscreen), Burger King, Vinci group... Case study
- Results: +3M€ in revenue, +40 people
CTO - Founding Partner
ENERSY
4 partners - 01/2014 - 06/2015 (1 year, 6 months)
Archived on GitHub
- GreenTech IoT startup of connected thermostats using meteorology, machine learning and dynamic thermal simulation in the cloud
- Server clusters, database design, Web & Android applications
- TCP/IP -TLS, MQTT communication protocols
- First prototypes on ARM Cortex M4 and Arduino platforms
- "Boiler" module: WiFi stack (Hotspot / client mode)
- Radio drivers (433Mhz protocol)
- Certification of a European radio type (CE)
Other activities: IoT Consultant - AMOA
- Prototypes and models on Arduino and Cortex M4 platforms, Free RTOS for a connected sonometer equipment manufacturer
- Restructuring of IoT platform (Kuzzle, LoRaWan, Docker) for ffly4u.com
Full stack developer
SOMFY GROUP
50 people | 06/2011 - 09/2013 (2 years, 3 months)