Transitioned from CTO after the Series B to refocus on hands-on engineering. Leading the Platform Team on foundational projects centered on performance and scalability. Driving the adoption of AI coding tools across the engineering organization.
Joined at pre-seed to build the engineering organization and the foundations of the product from scratch. Recruited dozens of engineers, mentored ICs and middle managers, structured teams and delivery as the company grew to 110+ people serving 450+ enterprises across 30+ countries, including Circle, Laser Digital, and Consensys.
Took the product from MVP to millions in ARR and over $3T in processed transaction volume. As a member of the leadership team, supported the CEO on strategy and on the seed, Series A, and $45M Series B rounds. Owned the company's SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits with PwC.
Teaching cybersecurity modules to engineering students (reverse engineering, binary exploitation, and web security) through lectures, hands-on labs, and CTF-style assignments.
Maintained open-source Go tool InfluxDB Relay and contributed to a C++ driver for a robotic system for automated product photography.
Conducted research on deception applied to database security under the supervision of Nizar Kheir, PhD, and eventually filed a patent.
Collaborated with various clients, such as Sony Music. Worked on a wide range of projects, from OCR pipelines in Python to large scale web scraping in JavaScript.
Comfortable across the stack and across paradigms. Strong bias for picking the right tool for the problem, rather than defending a familiar language or framework.
Hired and mentored dozens of engineers and middle managers. Structured teams, processes, and delivery from a single developer to multiple autonomous squads. Comfortable owning roadmap and stakeholder communication alongside technical decisions.
Self-taught foundations in reverse engineering, binary exploitation, and web security. Years of CTFs paired with enterprise security work: compliance, audits, and operations.
Native French, fluent English. At ease with public speaking and technical writing in either language.
Co-founded PoC and led its cybersecurity department for two years. Gave dozens of talks and trainings, organized a cybersecurity bootcamp .