Jul 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr

Jul 2018 – Jun 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• Client Chief Architect for the McDonald's strategic partnership. Overseeing Architecture and Engineering for Digital (Microservices, Kubernetes, AWS), Mobile, Restaurant (POS, Kiosk, Edge Platform) & Web. Driving convergence to enable unified multi-channel experience. Continuous Delivery, Agile, DevOps transformation.
• GenerativeAI evangelist and internal speaker, educating architects on GenAI. Actively deploying GenAI solutions to augment product, design and engineering teams.
• Additionally, I actively participate in the Capgemini North America Architect Community by sharing knowledge, providing training, and coaching others.

Jul 2018 – Jun 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• Responsible for a distributed team of cross-functional engineers dedicated to building, maintaining, and supporting McDonald’s e-commerce platform comprised of Cloud Native API platforms, native mobile applications, and websites.
• Instrumental in growing McDonald’s digital yearly revenue from $5B to $30B (averaging 1.3 million orders per day, peaking at 2.2 million).
• Consolidated McDonald’s app as the foremost downloaded QSR application in the US (with more than twice the downloads of the second-ranking app).
• Orchestrated the successful launch of MyMcDonald’s Rewards program, one of the largest loyalty programs globally, boasting over 150 million users.
• Assembled and nurtured high-performing engineering teams with a strong emphasis on delivering top-tier quality, resulting in a near elimination of critical production incidents.
• Spearheaded key organizational and technological initiatives:
• Revamped the organization model to reinforce product-centricity and accountability.
• Introduced Continuous Delivery as a tower-wide goal, prioritizing culture and leadership.
• Complete overhauled our deployment pipelines enabling multiple deployments per day.
• Migrated to infrastructure/configuration-as-code to reduce manual operations and improve deployments success rates.
• Elevated testing as a first-class concern, treating tests with the same rigor as production code.
• Reinforced the Systems Reliability Engineer function (training, coaching).

Sep 2008 – Jul 2018 · 9 yrs 10 mos

• As a member of the France Office of Complex Projects reporting to the COO, I led multiple projects in Java, .NET, web, mobile and ML/AI technologies with a focus on Agile, DevOps and software craftsmanship:
• Strengthened project architectures and engineering practices, salvaging critical projects to meet business goals.
• Promoted Extreme Programming (XP) principles thus improving software quality and accelerating development.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, mentored engineers, and guided technology decisions.
• Managed project planning, resources, and budgets.
• I also acted as a technical evangelist with duties ranging from technology watch, application framework design, and technical trainings delivered both internally and externally. In addition to these operational roles, I am also involved in business unit transversal activities among which: Agile, Software Craftsmanship and DevOps evangelism and coaching; Project Management training, recruitment, coaching and career management.

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

• Developer of Witsy an AI Desktop Assistant giving access to all major providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek...). Fully integrated into your desktop, Witsy enables access to a plethora of GenAI commands from any application! Witsy also features text-to-speech and speech-to-text, image and video creations.

Apr 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 11 mos · Grenoble Area, France

• Founder, developer, business developer
• Main product is Scorecast, a social sports prediction platform.
• See projects below for details.

Feb 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos · Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France · On-site

• As a Senior Software Engineering Manager of this Computer Aided Diagnosis software editor, I built the product definition and roadmap for a new medical images visualization software and coordinated clinical trials with the objective of obtaining US territory distribution FDA approval.

Sep 2004 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France · On-site

• Appointed as the Software Engineering Manager for an Intelligent Transportation System software editor (18 months).
• .NET Software Architect and Engineering Manager (11 months)

Sep 2003 – Sep 2008 · 5 yrs · Nice Area, France

• Independent Software Developer for cam2pc, a digital photography management software downloaded more than 1,000,000 times (distributed both as a freeware and a shareware).
• Business developer: concluded a distribution deal with Anuman Interactive (50,000+ units sold worldwide in retail).

Oct 1999 – Oct 2003 · 4 yrs

• Product and Project Manager
• Lead Architect (cross-platform desktop applications)
• Technical Leader (C++)

Oct 1998 – Oct 1999 · 1 yr

• - Software engineer (C++)

May 1996 – Oct 1998 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Software engineer (HTML, Java applets)
• Oracle DBA