Experience
30+ years of research-informed technology leadership — from embedded systems to AI at scale
Professional Experience
November 2025 – Present
AI Operating Partner
Supporting both the Private Equity arm and the Venture Capital arm, working across current and future portfolio companies to accelerate and scale cloud and AI initiatives.
- •Accelerate cloud and AI initiatives across PE and VC portfolio companies
- •Provide strategic guidance on product development, engineering architecture, and operations optimization
- •Support GTM acceleration through technology-enabled growth strategies
- •Help portfolio companies scale their technology infrastructure and AI capabilities
2024 – November 2025
Vice President & Chief Evangelist
Acted as the first customer and provided in-depth feedback to the R&D team. Created deep technical content including code demos, blog posts, and YouTube videos (400k subscribers). Recognized as an Arm Ambassador.
- •First customer, providing product feedback to enhance usability
- •Created deep technical content (code demos, blog posts, YouTube videos)
- •Spoke at World Bank, Bank of Italy, and international conferences
- •Benchmarked and deployed models across hardware platforms (CPU, GPU, AI accelerators)
- •Recognized as Arm Ambassador for inference optimization expertise
2021 – 2024
Chief Evangelist
Led technical evangelism and community building for the leading open-source AI platform, focusing on transformer models, optimization, and deployment strategies.
- •Field CTO working with Fortune 500 teams on private infrastructure deployment
- •Tech lead on projects with JPMorgan, engaging top-level stakeholders
- •Initiated strategic partnerships with AWS, Azure, Google, Intel, AMD
- •Led 250+ AWS customer meetings, generating $35M+ commercial pipeline
- •Spoke at UNESCO, NY Federal Reserve, and major industry events
2015 – 2021
Global Evangelist, Machine Learning and AI
Helped AWS customers worldwide understand and adopt the AWS AI/ML service portfolio. Authored the first book on Amazon SageMaker.
- •650+ talks in nearly 40 countries
- •Authored "Learn Amazon SageMaker" — first published book on AWS SageMaker
- •Promoted to Amazon Level 8 (Director-equivalent for ICs) — extremely rare
- •Named #1 AI Evangelist by AI Magazine in 2021
- •Second most senior technical evangelist at AWS after Jeff Barr
- •Wrote 70+ launch blog posts
October 2014 – October 2015
Chief Technology Officer
Viadeo
Led software, infrastructure, and big data (70 engineers in Paris and San Francisco) for viadeo.com, a professional social network with 10M members.
- •Initiated and completed all-in migration of 200-server physical platform to AWS
- •Managed 70 engineers across Paris and San Francisco
February 2014 – September 2014
Chief Technology Officer, Software
Managed 130 engineers responsible for software engineering (OS, apps & web) and infrastructure for all Aldebaran robots.
- •Launched the world-famous Pepper robot in Tokyo (CNN article)
- •Reorganized team and deployed Agile methods
October 2010 – February 2014
Vice President, Engineering
In charge of an online advertising SaaS platform used by 3000+ e-commerce companies in 30+ countries. 30B+ daily HTTP requests.
- •Publisher Platforms: Real-Time Bidding with Facebook, Google, Yahoo — 30B+ daily requests
- •Scalability: 6PB Hadoop cluster, real-time and analytics processing
- •Infrastructure: 7 datacenters (6000 devices), 30M€ budget, 60+ engineers
May 2009 – September 2010
Chief Technology Officer
Pixmania
In charge of an e-commerce platform generating 2B€ GMV. 150 engineers, 600+ servers, 2PB NetApp storage.
- •Lowered OPEX by 20% through better supplier management
- •Managed 600+ servers across 7 locations
March 2007 – April 2009
Vice President, Engineering
Digiplug
SaaS platform for digital supply chain services used by music majors (Universal, Sony, Warner). Scaled team from 12 to 50.
- •Designed and deployed infrastructure on 2 hosting locations (150 servers, 2M€+ CAPEX)
- •Implemented ISO 27001 security standards
February 2002 – September 2006
Director, R&D Mobile Communications
Led software development of all Telecom products (45 people in France, 25 in China and Philippines). Major customer wins (Vodafone Group, Cingular).
- •70 engineers across France, China, Philippines
- •Won Vodafone Group and Cingular contracts
- •Sustained 60% yearly increase in smartcard delivery volumes
- •Custom SIM apps for SFR, Orange, TIM, Telefonica, Vodafone UK
Education
Master's degree in Computer Systems
Sorbonne University, Paris
1995
Engineering degree
ISEP, Paris
1993