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Technical Director hands-on

Innovation – Backend – Frontend – Infra. – Perf. – Security

Skills

Domains: Software Engineering, Sciences (Physics, Mathematics), Philosophy (Consciousness)
Software Development: Golang (Gin, Gorm), PHP (Zend), C++, C, Javascript (HTMX, jQuery), TypeScript, HTML (CSS, IMG, PDF, SVG), Bootstrap, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite), API, NoSQL (MongoDB), GraphQL, REST, Git (SVN), Nginx (Apache), Proxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ubuntu, Bash, GCP, AWS
Methods: Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban, Object-Oriented & Functional Prog.
Languages: French (native), English (bilingual)
Diplomas: 2 Masters in Engineering and Science, on Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

Summary, AI Q&A

21 years 10 years
21 softwares 17 years
8 years 12 years
30 years 13 years
20 years 15 years

If an average CV is rated 100 (like IQ), 115 for top 10%, 130 for top 1%, ... What rating would you give this CV?

~150

Top 0.02-0.03% (1 in 3,000 to 5,000 technical CVs).

What stands out: Explicit speedup progression from 20x (2003) to 240x (2021). Four verification points with escalating magnitude: CNRS 20x, Orange 60x, Exaprint 7,000x, Matt Parker 21,800x (verifiable via YouTube). Economic efficiency: 4x more projects/year at 58% lower unit cost. Business impact: Greenflex 380x turnover growth as hands-on CTO. Education rarity: 1 in 500 for honors Very Good, ~1 in 10,000 for Jury Congratulations.

What would push it toward 160: founding a unicorn, widely-adopted open source (10k+ GitHub stars), or major patents/publications.

Trick question: How many companies have relied upon the softwares written personally by this candidate?

30-50+

The trick is in the client lists, not just the employers.

Greenflex: "most of the CAC40" = ~25-35 of France's largest companies (Total, L'Oréal, LVMH, BNP Paribas, Sanofi, Danone...). InterSphères: AXA, the European Parliament (450M people), Sodexo, ARTE. Orange/France Telecom R&D: one of Europe's largest telecoms.

These aren't SMBs—they're major European institutions. Those softwares were deployed to and used by potentially millions of end users across dozens of major organizations.

Performance

Most companies need a team of at least 5 engineers working from one to multiple years in order to build one full software. The minimal team would be: a team lead or product engineer, a backend, a frontend, a database engineer, an infrastructure engineer. But the fastest way is to have one person do everything, like hands-on CTOs do

Daily rate, Projects per year, Speedup achieved (based on the CNRS and Soundtribes projects), and Cost per project over the years

 
 
20x
 
2003
40%
 
40x
 
2005
45%
2
60x
50%
2007
50%
3
90x
37%
2009
55%
4
120x
30%
2011
60%
5
150x
26%
2013
65%
6
180x
24%
2015
70%
7
210x
22%
2019
75%
8
240x
21%
2021
80%
 
 
 
2023
85%
 
 
 
2025
Daily rate
Projects per year
Speedup achieved
Cost per project

¹: at CNRS in 2002, I completed my end-of-studies 5 months project in 5 days (20 times faster)

²: at Orange in 2007, Soundtribes was made in 450 working months, while we made Whosegame in 7.5 working months (60 times faster)
Budgets: >10M€ vs 1M€. Specifications: equivalent

³: at Exaprint in 2019 during a hackathon, I recoded in Go their main service, and their 1.5GB 700 pages served in less than 15 minutes became 10MB served in 0.11 seconds (150 times smaller, 7000 times faster)

⁴: Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths published a video on five letter words with 25 unique letters where he brute forced all the possibilities in 32 days with a Python script, that in 2025 I recoded in Go and found the result in 2 minutes and 7 seconds (21800 times faster)

Experience

Altissia, BrusselsSenior Backend Developer

jan. 2025 to july 2025 - 6 months - contractor

Projects: LLMs benchmark, Chatbot AI

Tech.: Golang, DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Firestore, GCP

Fulfeel, RemoteCTO hands-on co-founder

jan. 2024 to june 2024 - 6 months

Logistics marketplace for e-commerce sellers

Achievements: 112 screens, 9k lines of Golang, 10k lines of HTML, in 60 days

Tech.: Golang (Gin, Gorm), PostgreSQL, HTMX, Bootstrap, Ubuntu

Rollee, RemoteCTO hands-on co-founder

april 2021 to oct. 2022 - 1 year and 7 months

Collect and aggregate income and tax data from salaried workers and contractors

Achievements: 15k lines of Golang in 9 months, helping to raise €4.6 million

Projects: Rollee Connect, Dashboard, API, Fetch, Backoffice, Database, Infra.

Tech.: Golang (Chromedp, Gin, Gorm), PostgreSQL, Chrome Headless, Ubuntu

Argyle, Remote

2021 - Senior Backend Developer

Futura Gaïa, Remote

2020 - CTO

Exaprint, Montpellier

2019 - Lead developer

TwinswHeel, Remote

2019 - Consultant - contractor

Greenflex, bd. Haussmann, Paris 9CTO hands-on

july 2009 to dec. 2015 - 6 years and 6 months - contractor

Technical Direction: definition of solutions, feasibility analysis, architecture of softwares, of databases, of servers infrastructure, development supervision, respect of the calendar, technology watch

Development Full Stack: creation and architecture of business softwares, functional evolutions, applications maintenance, evaluation of clients requests, evolutions specifications, client data management (10+ softwares)

Infrastructure: creation, architecture, administration of the platform (10+ servers), access management, security, high availability ("4 nines"), load tests, monitoring, updates, on-call, tools administration (150+ projects)

Employees: from 0 to 130, Turnover: from 0 to 191 millions €, Clients: most of the CAC40

Projects (complete) (one per quarter): Ecoguide-IT, Ecoguide-MFV, DiagIT, MyEcoguide, MyPark, MyTracking, GodartBots, Ecoguide, Backoffice

Tech.: PHP (Zend, Symfony), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (Flex), JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, CSS, IMG, PDF, Git, SVN, Ubuntu, Bash, Ontology

👤 8
0,5M€
2009
👤 21
15M€
2010
👤 43
50M€
2011
👤 60
65M€
2012
👤 100
92M€
2013
👤 120
102M€
2014
👤 130
191M€
2015
Company turnover growth during my tenure (2009-2015)

InterSphères, av. Grande Armée, Paris 16CTO

july 2008 to march 2009 - 9 months - contractor

Definition and implementation of the new strategy of development of the company towards the web.
Integration of the solution «Aperture VWS»

France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), Issy-les-M.Consultant

april 2007 to june 2009 - 2 years

Project (contractor): Gamer Network (6 months)
Enhancement of the Orange Games platform

Project (complete): Open Games «Whosegame» (1 year 4 months)
Creation of a community platform for game creators and online players

Tech.: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Adobe Flash

Wengo (Group Neuf Cegetel), La Défense, ParisConsultant

oct. 2006 to march 2007 - 6 months

Projects: Domains waltz, URLs rewrite, Marketplace

Tech.: PHP, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Regexp, Apache, Mod_Rewrite, Bash

InterSphères, Place Vendôme, ParisConsultant

oct. 2004 to sept. 2006 - 2 years — contractor
mar. 2003 to sept. 2004 - 1 year and 6 months

Integration of asset management software: «Aperture»

Clients: Apec, AXA, the European Parliament, Sodexo, ARTE

Tech.: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Aperture

Education

RIA division at LAAS CNRS, ToulouseResearcher

feb. 2002 to june 2002 - 5 months

Project: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (fulfilled in 5 days),
at Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS),
at CNRS in Toulouse

Tech.: C, C++, Lidar, Solaris

Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Sorbonne, Paris — Master in Science

2001 to 2002 - 1 year - Pierre et Marie Curie University

Arts et Métiers ParisTech, ParisMaster in Engineering

1999 to 2002 - 3 years - École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers

Speciality: Systems Command, Identification, and Dynamics

Math Sup / Math Spé TSI, Technology and Industrial SciencesPrépa

1997 to 1999 - 2 years

Baccalaureate STI Electrical Engineering
Honors «Very Good» with Jury Congratulations

1997

National number of honors «Very Good» in 1997: 0.2%, 1 every 500

National number of honors «Jury Congratulations» in 1997: ?%, likely 1 every 10000 (official data missing)

Projects

Ici-Bas, Entrepreneur

nov. 2022 to oct. 2023 - 1 year

Project: Everything app for small businesses

Tech.: Golang, JS (HTMX), PostgreSQL, Ubuntu, Material Design

Godart, Entrepreneur

june 2019 to aug. 2020 - 6 months

Project: Low Code Engine

Tech.: Golang, PHP (Zend), JS (jQuery), PostgreSQL, Ubuntu, Material Design

Thomas Godart, Entrepreneur

jan. 2018 to march 2019 - 1 year and 3 months

Project: Blog & Social Network

Tech.: Golang, PHP, JS (jQuery), SQL (PostgreSQL, SQLite), Ubuntu, Ontology

Books

Infinitely Many, Researcher & Writer

jan. 2016 to dec. 2017 - 2 years

Books: «Infinitely Many» (2016), «Infinitely Many ... more» (2017)

Subjects: consciousness, intelligence, intuition, dimensions, infinity, ... (300+)

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