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Where I've built

From Tech to Climate & Biodiversity Impact

  1. May 2026 — Present

    Volunteer · The Shifters

    The Shifters is a public-interest association that brings together volunteers committed to the low-carbon transition of France and Europe.

  2. Feb 2026 — Present

    Ambassador · Sator

    Sator is a platform to learn, understand, and act for a sustainable and desirable environment, democratic life, and economy. More than 30 masterclasses have been designed with leading scientists and experts. Learn more at https://www.sator.fr

  3. Jun 2021 — Present

    Associate · Team for the Planet

    Team for the Planet is a nonprofit company that creates and finances companies fighting against climate change at a global scale.

  4. Oct 2010 — Feb 2026

    Sonar

    From early employee to Chief Product Officer, from 5 to 750 employees world-wide, from $0 to $350M+ ARR - always highly profitable (30%+ EBITDA) and high growth (30%+): I helped grow Sonar from a startup to a global successful scaleup, building product strategy and the Product organisation along the way.

    1. Nov 2025 — Feb 2026

      Advisor

      After stepping down from my executive position to focus on climate & biodiversity impact, I supported Sonar during the transition with the new CPO.

    2. Sep 2022 — Sep 2025

      Chief Product Officer

      Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

      Owns Product Strategy, Product Management, Product UX and Documentation, Product Data, and Developer Relations. Team of 50+ PMs, UX designers and researchers, tech writers, dev advocates and community managers.

    3. May 2019 — Sep 2022

      VP of Product and Head of Product Management

      Annecy

      Created from scratch the Product Management team at SonarSource, growing it to 15 PMs before recruiting a Head of PM to own this function.

    4. Dec 2017 — Jul 2020

      Senior Product Manager - SonarCloud

      Annecy

      I led and launched SonarQube SaaS offering, initially called SonarCloud and rebranded later to SonarQube Cloud.

    5. Sep 2012 — Dec 2017

      Product Manager - SonarQube

      Annecy

      I led the development of the open-source and commercial editions of SonarQube, progressively reaching hundreds of thousands of installations throughout the world.

    6. Oct 2010 — Aug 2012

      Startup Mode

      Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

      Instead of leading a competing open-source project in my previous company, I decided to join forces with the 3 founders in the early days of Sonar. As the the 2nd employee of the company, I was doing product development, community and customer support, ... and all the things that must be done in a startup mode.

  5. Nov 2006 — Sep 2010

    The Apache Software Foundation

    Open-source contributions as committer and PMC member.

    1. Jan 2008 — Sep 2010

      Committer and PMC - Apache Archiva

    2. Nov 2006 — Sep 2010

      Committer - Apache Maven

  6. May 2007 — Sep 2010

    Chief Technology Officer · Qualixo

    Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

    I launched and led the open-source Squale project (http://www.squale.org), a code-quality product, for which I endorsed several roles: Tech Lead, team leader, open-source community management, research project management (as part of the System@tic Paris-Region competitive cluster), and commercial services development and promotion.

  7. Apr 2004 — Apr 2007

    CI & Code Quality Expert · Groupe PSA

    Paris Area, France

    I set up the first Continuous Integration service from scratch for the whole company, reaching hundreds of Java projects for several different business units. As part of this effort, I also set up the first code quality tools and practices for the whole company.

  8. Jan 2002 — Mar 2004

    Software Engineer · Improve

    Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

    Java Web Application development. Open-source framework development. Eclipse-based project development and management.

  9. Apr 2001 — Sep 2001

    Sotware Engineer · IBM Ottawa Lab (formerly OTI)

    Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

    Member of the Eclipse Core Team. We released Eclipse 1.0.0 as an open-source project.