Up-to-date resume (PDF)

2024 - 2025

› Principal engineer at Dango, a decentralized exchange featuring a high-performance CLOB, cross-collateralization, and liquidity vaults. Built from scratch in Rust with a custom smart contract execution layer and CometBFT consensus.

2022 - 2024

› Principal engineer at Stargaze, a NFT marketplace and L1 blockchain.

› Released Constellations, a high-performance and real-time Cosmos blockchain indexer using Rust.

› Talk at Nebular about Constellations and how I built the indexer. [view the slides]

› Talk at DEVMOS about how I built Constellations, a cosmos chain indexer. [view the slides] [view agenda]

2020 - 2022

› Principal engineer at Beam, a macOS browser including AI and note taking. Among other things, I created a secure E2EE backend API that stores and synchronizes user-generated content across all devices using AES-GCM encryption. The API was written in Ruby and later rewritten in Rust, with client-side libraries in Swift, JS, and WebAssembly.

› Seed investor at Stargaze, a decentralized community-owned NFT app chain on the cosmos ecosystem.

2018 - 2020

› Co-founder, CTO and CPO at Kard, a French bank for teenagers.

2017 - 2018

› CTO and CPO at AccorLocal, Accor SA. A project to provide hotel services through a mobile app.

2015 - 2017

› CTO at Stuart, a company providing last mile delivery in multiple countries. Revamped and managed the tech until it was acquired by La Poste.

2012 - 2014

› Senior Engineer at Process One. Built the infrastructure used to send push notifications for all the BBC mobile apps. Ended up sending over 500M pushes per day, on >20M devices.

› Released Faast, an iOS app for receiving push.

› Released Heritage, a community for analog photography.

› Released Liker, an iOS facebook app.

2009 - 2011

› Senior Engineer at Causes (San Francisco), the biggest Facebook application at the time (over 200 million users).

› Released Push4, an iOS app for receiving push.

2007 - 2009

› Founded CONOVAE SARL, a software engineering company.

2004 - 2005

› Master’s degree in Computer Science. Skipped 4 years, applied with only a high school diploma. Graduated with honors.

1999 - 2003

› Co written Templeet, an Open Source template system used by LinuxFr and hundreds of other projects.

› Co founded DBee SA, a company to stream events on video.

1998

› Founded LinuxFr, the biggest French community about Linux and free softwares. About 50 million requests a month.