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Senior Cloud & AI Architect | CTO & Technology Advisor | Head of Engineering
ISSY LES MOULINEAUX, France
Worldwide
Master's degree in Applied MathematicsAbout me
Senior IT consultant with 20+ years in cloud, AI, pre-sales and technical leadership, including 7 years as CTO. Interim CTO/Head of Engineering, cloud & AI architecture, ERP and transformation. Trilingual FR/EN/AR, EU citizen, based in Dublin/Paris, available across Europe.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)Microsoft AzureVoIPClient Server ModelsCloud ComputingCloud EngineeringDevOpsVMware ESX ServersSoftware ArchitectureSolution ArchitectureOpenapiCloud Platform SystemIT ArchitectureCloud TechnologiesCloud Integration
Cloud & Enterprise Architecture
Expertise in target architecture, multi-cloud decisions, governance, sovereign cloud, transformation scoping, SI urbanization, integration patterns, and FinOps across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services.
Enterprise AI & GenAI Adoption
Scoping and industrialization of multi-LLM agents with persistent memory, security and role-based access, covering multi-vendor advisory including Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude.
Interim CTO / Head of Engineering
Take-over of IT organizations in crisis or hyper-growth, technology roadmap definition, hiring and structuring of teams, and portfolio governance, including leadership of a 25+ engineer EMEA organization built from scratch.
Complex Pre-Sales & Solution Consulting
RFP / RFI / SOW responses, discovery workshops, tailored demos, POCs, pricing, solution documents, and C-level presentations for enterprise clients.
ERP Programs & SI Transformation
Scoping, vendor selection, and multi-entity implementation leadership across CRM, Sales, HR, Helpdesk, Project Management, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain, including change management.
Cybersecurity & Governance
Zero-trust architecture, IAM / SSO / SIEM / DLP, GDPR compliance, data sovereignty, application and cloud security audits, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, and identity federation in production.
DevOps, SRE & Observability
CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps Pipelines; observability with Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and Elastic Stack; GitOps, IaC, blue/green, canary, feature flags, incident response, and SLO/SLI/SLA management.
APIs, Integrations & Development
REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, Webhooks, and OpenAPI standards; hands-on with Node.js / TypeScript and Python; databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
Telecom & Unified Communications
Design and deployment of VoIP / SIP contact center platforms, CCaaS platforms, SIP trunk, Enghouse CCU, AudioCodes Gateway, Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, and understanding of telecom operator regulation including ARCEP.
Audit, Scoping & Strategic Advisory
State-of-the-art reviews, benchmarks, business cases, roadmaps, build vs buy arbitration, and executive committee and board advisory.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2024
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchNative speakerSpanishBasic knowledge
Project history
Consulting engagements with enterprises across France, Ireland and EMEA on enterprise GenAI adoption, cloud architecture, complex pre-sales and interim technical leadership. Scoping and industrialization of multi-LLM AI agents with persistent memory, security and role-based access. Multi-vendor enterprise AI advisory including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Workspace Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude. Pre-sales and delivery for enterprise clients including discovery workshops, tailored demos, POCs, and RFP/RFI/SOW responses.
Founded and led a humanitarian and educational non-profit operating across 4 countries (Tunisia, Lebanon, Cameroon, Ukraine). Scholarship program for 70+ students per year combining financial aid with academic and social mentoring. Coordinated a network of 50+ volunteers per year across multiple countries with governance and reporting frameworks.
Technical leadership of a services and SaaS company operating across French, EMEA and Sub-Saharan African markets. Built a 25+ engineer technical organization from scratch with 10M+ EUR budgets. Designed and rolled out an international multi-entity ERP reducing operational overhead by 25%. Delivered sovereign cloud platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa with +30% availability. Led monthly C-level strategic steering committees and achieved +30% SLA improvement on strategic accounts. Managed enterprise security, identity federation, GDPR audit and compliance.
Certificates
PMP
PMI2025
PRINCE2
peoplecert2025