Antoine Ferran
Senior Embedded Software Engineering Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Freelance
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Embedded software leader with 15+ years managing technical teams and delivering IoT, aerospace, and safety-critical systems. Successfully led reorganizations of 30+ person teams and increased automated test coverage by 30% at Intel. Specialized in embedded C/Linux development, team leadership, and cross-functional project management with proven expertise in product industrialization and certification.
Work experience
Head of Embedded Software Engineering
DelairFreelance
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
7 months
Toulouse, France
Managing the Embedded Software team (~10 people): - Managing team activity (weekly meetings, monthly 1 to 1...) - Interfacing with Project Managers - Defining and applying new processes to help balancing the workload between projects - Recruiting
Domain Leader Safety products
Faiveley TransportFreelance
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
7 months
Greater Tours Area
Transition manager. In charge of reorganizing the software and validation teams (~30 people) to ease the process and get the project back on track.
Founder
Smart Momentum
Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
1 year 2 months
Toulouse, France
Working on a project to install small wind turbines on the side of the roads to take advantage of the wind generated by vehicles Searching for financing means (grants, loans…) Administrating the company
Associate / CTO
Wizzili
Sep 2017 - Mar 2022
4 years 7 months
Toulouse Area, France
In charge of the embedded software, industrialization and certification for the Wizzili personnal assisitant.
Project Manager
Axible Technologies
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
11 months
Labège, France
Working for Sigfox on a low-cost IOT (Internet of Things) module that includes Sigfox, Wifi, BLE and GPS connectivity. Managing partners in Taiwan and South Korea, driving them from a technical point of view.
Management Accounting
Laroche Industries
May 2016 - Oct 2016
6 months
31770 Colomiers, France
4 months internship. Enhancement of the ERP software to provide automated management accounting reports and indicators for the aeronautical assembly business unit and provided a monthly reporting that allowed to monitor budget on each project
Aerospace MBA
Toulouse Business School (TBS)
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 1 month
Toulouse Area, France
Full time MBA Course
Connectivity validation team lead
Intel Corporation
Feb 2013 - Oct 2015
2 years 9 months
Toulouse Area, France
In charge of a team of 9 to validate non-cellular connectivity (WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS...) on Intel products. Scrum product owner to enhance automated test coverage which we manage to increased by 30%
Parrot
Jan 2007 - Jan 2013
6 years 1 month
Paris Area, France
Software Team Leader
Jul 2009 - Jan 2013
3 years 7 months
Paris Area, France
Leader of the embedded software team (6 people) for the AR.Drone projects : · Hiring. · Team management. · Planning, software architecture and APIs definitions. · Synchronization with other teams working on the project (Electronics, Automated Sytems...). · Travelled to CES, E3 and Tokyo Game Show to help presenting the AR.Drone.
Software Engineer
Jan 2007 - Jul 2009
2 years 7 months
Paris Area, France
Software Engineer on the Bluetooth stack used on nearly every Parrot's products. Development was done in C on Linux.
Software Engineer
Sagem DS
Apr 2004 - Dec 2006
2 years 9 months
Software Engineer (C and C++) on SLPRM (French ground based mission planning and debriefing system) and FAED (French equivalent of Automated Fingerprint Identification System) projects. Member of the team in charge of implementing the Lean Sigma optimization process for the development teams.
Education
TBS Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
2015 - 2016
2 years
ESIEA - École d'Ingénieur·e·s d'un numérique utile
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science
1998 - 2001
4 years
IUT Orsay
Technical degree, Computer Science
1996 - 1998
3 years
Licenses & certifications
ISO/IEC 27005 Risk Manager
Issued: Jun 2025
EBIOS Provisional Risk Manager
Issued: Jun 2025
PMP
Issued: Nov 2014
ISTQB Foundation
Issued: Jan 2014