My journey through tech & innovation
Over the years, I've had the privilege of working across various industries , technologies, and teams, shaping products, scaling architectures, and solving complex challenges. From hands-on engineering to technical leadership, every role has contributed to my expertise. Here's a look at my professional experience.
- Mar 2022 -
Present
3 years 1 monthChief Technology Officer
San Francisco, CA - Full TimeCrystallize is the core of your Jamstack, including Payments, Checkout, Order Management, Subscriptions, Analytics, and connections to the rest of your Best-of-Breed stack.
- Pushing the boundaries of Internet craftsmanship
- Leading the Engineering team
- Headless Commerce for Product Storytellers / PIM / DAM / CMS
- Jan 2020 -
Mar 2022
2 years 2 monthsChief Technology Officer Web & Mobile
San Francisco, CA - Full TimeCTO of the newly born Web & Mobile business unit (~60 persons) after the acquisition of Novactve by Almavia (250 persons).
- Directed a team of 20 - 30 developers and 10 - 15 project managers in France, Ukraine, and the U.S
- Led and supervised engineering activities on a global scale. (~55 active projects)
- Ensured the productivity, efficiency, quality, and security of the projects and engineering activities(DXP, e - commerce, APIs, etc.)
- Secured the innovation strategy to keep winning awards and staying ahead of the competition
- Developed and Maintained the Content Management System(CMS) and Digital eXperience Platform(DXP) leadership worldwide
- Explored and evaluated new technologies to gather more expertise in order to improve the company's overall service offer
- May 2014 -
Jan 2020
5 years 8 monthsChief Technology Officer
San Francisco, CA - Full Time- Took charge of the U.S.entity in San Francisco while taking over the CTO position worldwide
- Led, managed, planned, and developed business strategies and operations across the U.S.and on a global scale
- Owned the transition to different technical stacks and processes to improve time - to - market for our clients
- Operational and personnel management
- Budgetary, high - level legal, and company administrative functions
- Supervised a team of 20 - 25 developers in France, Canada, and San Francisco
- Won different innovation awards and the Ibexa best partner of the year 2015
- Jan 2011 -
May 2014
3 years 4 monthsHead of Innovation
Paris, France - Full TimeIn charge of all engineering activities, and R&D strategy.
- Enabled the second office abroad in Canada(Montréal)
- Increased engineering productivity by 25 % by automating processes
- Exceeded R & D Tax Credits objectives, attaining around 10 % of the total revenue
- Supervised a team of 15 - 20 developers in France, Tunisia, and Canada
- Recruited, trained, and evaluated teams of Frontend, and Backend developers
- Jan 2008 -
Dec 2010
2 years 11 monthsHead of Web Development department
Paris, France - Full Time- Supervised a team of 10 - 15 developers in France and Tunisia
- Enabled the first office abroad in Tunisia
- Recruited, trained, and evaluated teams of Frontend, and Backend developers
- Improved team productivity and efficiency by establishing processes
- Ensured the successful ISO 9001 certification regarding Production, Delivery, and QA processes
- Oct 2005 -
Jan 2008
2 years 3 monthsWeb Architect
Paris, France - Full TimeWeb technical project manager, lead developer, and system administrator.
- Led and coordinated the architecture decisions across all the projects
- Performed many technical audits that led to taking over projects
- Owned the eZ Publish practice
- Maintained the technical quality of programming
- Oct 2003 -
Oct 2005
2 yearsWeb Developer in learning
Paris, France - Full Time- Introduced PHP5 with Object - Oriented Programming to the company
- Helped and assisted the CTO to architect and industrialize many e - commerce projects
- Ignited the Content Management System expertise with eZ Publish and Spip

Quickmii
- May 2013 -
Dec 2018
5 years 7 monthsCo-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
San Francisco, CA - Side ProjectStartup project which allows users to avoid filling out forms online but also offline thanks to their mobile phones.
- Researched and obtained a patent (US20150248394A1) for automatically uploading user profile information
- Jun 2010 -
Jan 2014
3 years 7 monthsCo-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Paris, France - Side ProjectStartup project which enables users to store their loyalty cards in their mobile phones.
- Designed and developed the iOS application and the architecture
- Won several startups competitions
- Reached the Top 10 in the AppStore in the LifeStyle category. (more than 25k downloads per day) in 2010
- More than 2M users the first year, 800k - 1M active users every weekend
- Engineered a custom Push Notification System able to send around 200k push under a minute
- Jan 2011 -
Jan 2012
1 yeariOS Teacher (Specialization in Management & Information Technology)
Paris, France - seasonalEPITA is a french Graduate School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies.
- Initiated and animated the iOS(3.x) Objective - C class for students in their last(5th) year at university
- Coached and evaluated their work
- Helped them to publish their project in the AppStore
- Apr 2003 -
Jul 2003
3 monthsWeb Developer and System administrator in learning
Amiens, France - InternshipWeb Developer and System administrator in learning.
- Built an intranet tool to help the sales team following and tracking their leads and their conversion rate