
Software Architect
Grenoble Area, France

Software Architect
Grenoble Area, France
As CEO of Teorem, I am providing technical audits and consulting services for companies finding technical limits in their growth and evolution.
As Chief Architect for Yahoo Europe, in charge of supporting and controlling software developments for all Yahoo products in Europe, as well as organizing and supervising the local architects network for Europe, and managing the relationships with other international regions and the teams in the US.
Particularly interested in designing systems with loose-coupling, re-usability, scalability and manageability in mind, in the domain of Internet applications.
As a founder of Kelkoo, took a central part in all the phases of the company, from the start-up creation to the buy-out, supporting those changes with creativity and technical expertise.
Software architecture oriented to highly loaded internet applications.
Software project management.
Start-up creation.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
Teorem is providing consulting for Internet and Software companies wanting to be technically able to reach huge audiences.
There is a time for a company or a product that can be seen as a frontier: you have to grow your business and you meet scalabilty problems in your technical architecture or in your technical organization. We are here to help you solve those problems so your company can reach the next step in its evolution.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
January 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 8 months)
Working for Europe in Yahoo International Engineering, I support developer and engineers working on the products deployed in Europe and (for some of them) all over the world. I coordinate the work of my fellows architects in different engineering groups in Europe while validating the design of the software locally developped. I define and promote standards (technology and design) allowing to optimize and speed up development.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
April 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 9 months)
In charge of the architectural design of the international shopping systems, helping in architecturing software in other engineering groups, supporting development teams while designing and developping new systems, searching and investigating new technologies.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
November 1999 — April 2004 (4 years 6 months)
I was one of the three technical founders of kelkoo, heading the software development and the deployment of all of our applications.
I ended by being in charge of the architecture design of Kelkoo systems, supporting R&D teams while designing and developping new systems, searching and investigating new technologies.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; FR0000052607; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1995 — February 1999 (4 years 2 months)
Working in collaboration with INRIA defining and developping mediation technology.
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
I worked there as part of the joint-venture between Bull and INRIA. It allowed me to know a lot of great and very smart people while seeing the beginning of the W3 consortium and helping a bit with some of the associated research projects.
(Internet industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
PhD, Software Engineering, September 1992 — May 1996
Ingénieur, Software Engineering, September 1989 — June 1992
Anything related to computers and their usage, Science-Fiction novels and movies, Mountain Bike and swimming