Hands-on CTO with over 27 years of experience on the web. I work directly with client teams to understand how their business runs, identify what can be automated, then build and deploy the solution with them. Sectors include insurance, banking, retail, logistics, media and gaming, and now shellfish farming with OstraOS, where I'm integrating an LLM-based assistant. I started on the early web at MultiMania, Lycos and Caramail.
Software for French oyster farmers: batch traceability, stock, sales, labelling, regulatory compliance and Factur-X e-invoicing.
• Built from zero after working alongside growers to learn a trade I didn't know.
• AI assistant being integrated: hybrid RAG (pgvector + Elasticsearch), open-weight models (Gemma) served locally with Ollama, over the regulatory corpus.
• Agent-driven development with Claude Code as a daily practice.
• Stack: Meteor, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, Traefik, Ansible, self-hosted on OVH.
Technical consulting embedded with client teams, from strategy to hands-on development.
• AXA / Kamet Ventures (London, 6 months): engineering on Qare, the medical teleconsultation platform born in AXA's venture studio.
• Milliman (Paris, 7 months): predictive analytics for banks and insurers on real estate and forex data.
• Crédit Agricole (Paris, 5 months): redesigned the development process for internal applications used by the regional banks.
• Also: Thalys (Brussels), Rungis Market / SetCargo, Ubisoft (Los Angeles), Red Bull (Paris).
Technical strategy for a B2B e-commerce platform serving the French Overseas Territories (DROM-COM), with 50,000+ products. Alongside Kokoua.
• Grew the development team from 1 to 4.
• Migrated the legacy Symfony platform to an AWS Serverless architecture.
• Implemented AI to optimise container loading and forecast product sales.
Chief Technology Officer, TheAssets (Oct 2014 - Nov 2017)
TheAssets•Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
B2B assets & IP marketplace
Hands-on CTO of a global marketplace for corporate assets, physical goods and intellectual property (patents).
• Grew the technical team from inception to 6 (developers and data scientists).
• Built the whole platform on real-time technologies (MeteorJS, Node.js, MongoDB) after a WordPress proof of concept.
• Built scraping systems collecting data from court-appointed administrators of liquidated companies.
Technical lead of a pioneering online-only data journalism outlet, winner of the ONA General Excellence in Online Journalism award (2010 & 2011).
• Grew the team from inception to 15 developers and 3 designers.
• Ran a high-traffic platform (1M+ monthly unique visitors) on WordPress MU.
• Led an R&D lab building data micro-apps (HTML5, real-time, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python), including the Véritomètre, live fact-checking of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Founded and ran a web agency designing and building custom e-commerce solutions.
• Team of 3, projects from inception to delivery.
• Built a proprietary e-commerce framework, before open-source solutions like Magento or PrestaShop.
• Clients supported from their launch, including Shoes.fr (now Spartoo group, 200K unique visitors), RestoIn and Wrung Division.
Senior Development Engineer, Lycos Europe (Jun 2002 - Oct 2005)
Lycos Europe•Jun 2002 - Oct 2005
Web portal & hosting
Senior engineer in the European team (8 countries) of the Lycos portal (Webcenter, Tripod, MultiMania, Spray).
• Member of the Hosting squad (20 people) running paid hosting and domain names.
• Built 'one-click' products for users (Shop, Curriculum Vitae, Traffic race).
• Stack: PHP/MySQL, Linux/Windows, CVS to SVN migration.
Development Engineer, Lycos Europe / MultiMania (Nov 2001 - Jun 2002)
Lycos Europe / MultiMania•Nov 2001 - Jun 2002
European hosting team
Monitoring and optimisation of the free hosting platform.
• Built Golgoth, an automated system that analysed FTP logs and uploaded files, cross-referenced accounts and detected renamed file types to catch illegal content and abuse.
• Golgoth acted on its own through a points-based system, with no human review.
• Saved about €6M a year in bandwidth and reduced legal exposure.
Technical Advisor / Support Engineer, MultiMania / Caramail (Mar 2000 - Nov 2001)
MultiMania / Caramail•Mar 2000 - Nov 2001
Technical support
Level 1 and 2 technical support for members of the free hosting platform.
• Advised developers on chats, forums and web creation (PHP/MySQL, CGI, HTML, Flash).
• Built the company's first internal ticketing tool in PHP/MySQL, which led to my move into engineering.
Technical Manager, Cyberstation / Cyberbus (Mar 1999 - Mar 2000)
Cyberstation / Cyberbus•Mar 1999 - Mar 2000
Digital training center
Ran a cybercenter and a mobile 'Cyberbus' dedicated to internet education and access.
• Administered a Windows NT fleet and the hardware/network infrastructure.
• Managed a team of 10 and ran training sessions for very different audiences, from corporate clients (RATP, the Paris transit authority, and BRED, a French bank) to students.
• Designed and maintained the Cyberstation website.
