Michaël Montoya — CEO
Engineer turned international negotiator turned startup CEO. I spent my early career at Cargill, the world's largest food supply company, where I grew a $1M portfolio to $37M across 30+ countries and became the youngest KAM in Cargill Europe. As an Officer in the French Army, I led soldiers through complex military simulations. Both taught me the same thing: decisions under pressure require structure and clarity. I co-founded Kotzilla with Arnaud Giuliani, my childhood friend and the creator of Koin. When Koin reached 2M monthly downloads, we saw an opportunity no one else was pursuing. Since then, Koin has grown 10x to 20M downloads per month and now powers 25% of all Android applications worldwide. Traditional observability captures symptoms. We use the dependency graph to understand the structure. That's a fundamentally different approach - symbolic approach - and a necessary one: AI is rewriting how mobile apps are built, and the volume of generated code demands an observability layer that reasons about architecture, not just metrics, flat logs and raw stack traces. That's what we're building at Kotzilla.
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Experience: 15 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Start-ups Management
- Business-to-business (b2b)
Career Highlights
- Grew a $1M portfolio to $37M at Cargill.
- Led Koin to 20M downloads per month.
- Expert in AI-driven mobile development.
Work Experience
The Galion Project
Community Member (2 yrs 3 mos)
Kotzilla
CEO & Co-Founder (3 yrs 6 mos)
Ministère de la Défense
Army Officer (5 yrs)
Cargill
Key Account Manager - Europe + Russia (11 yrs 11 mos)
Kemira
Sales Engineer (3 yrs 3 mos)
Tembec
Environnemental and process engineer (4 mos)
Education
Engineer at Grenoble INP - UGA
Executive Master of Business Administration at Ecole de Guerre Economique – EGE
Engineer at EFPG - French Papermaking, Printing and Biomaterials school
bachelor in science at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III