--- title: "Professional Experience" source: "https://sebastien.morel.me/experience.md" description: "Career history, from hands-on engineering to technical leadership and CTO roles." --- # Professional Experience Career history, from hands-on engineering to technical leadership and CTO roles. ## Experience ### [Crystallize](https://crystallize.com) **Chief Technology Officer** — Full Time · San Francisco, CA · 2022-03 – Present Crystallize is the core of your e-commerce Agentic System, including Payments, Checkout, Order Management, Subscriptions, Analytics, and connections to the rest of your Best-of-Breed stack. - Pushing the boundaries of Internet craftsmanship with AI-augmented engineering workflows - Leading and scaling the Engineering team - Owned and drove the architecture and evolution of core platform APIs and developer tooling (Discovery API, Shop API, Mass Operations API, TypeScript SDK, CLI), enabling the full Crystallize ecosystem - Implemented the MCP server to enable the ecosystem to build on top of Crystallize in a more efficient way - Enabled AI-augmented development workflows to boost productivity and creativity across the company - And more... ### [Almavia CX](https://almaviacx.com) **Chief Technology Officer Web & Mobile** — Full Time · San Francisco, CA · 2020-01 – 2022-03 CTO 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 ### [Novactive](https://almaviacx.com) **Chief Technology Officer** — Full Time · San Francisco, CA · 2014-05 – 2020-01 - 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 **Head of Innovation** — Full Time · Paris, France · 2011-01 – 2014-05 In 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 **Head of Web Development department** — Full Time · Paris, France · 2008-01 – 2010-12 - 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 **Web Architect** — Full Time · Paris, France · 2005-10 – 2008-01 Web 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 **Web Developer in learning** — Full Time · Paris, France · 2003-10 – 2005-10 - 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 **Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer** — Side Project · San Francisco, CA · 2013-05 – 2018-12 Startup 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 ### [Fidall](https://fidall.com) **Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer** — Side Project · Paris, France · 2010-06 – 2014-01 Startup 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 ### [EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique](https://www.epita.fr) **iOS Teacher (Specialization in Management & Information Technology)** — seasonal · Paris, France · 2011-01 – 2012-01 EPITA 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 ### [France Telecom](https://crystallize.com) **Web Developer and System administrator in learning** — Internship · Amiens, France · 2003-04 – 2003-07 Web Developer and System administrator in learning. - Built an intranet tool to help the sales team following and tracking their leads and their conversion rate