
Clément Lavollé
CTO ou Dev
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Profil tech senior orienté produit et business, avec une forte expérience de construction et de scaling de produits SaaS. J’interviens sur des contextes où les enjeux techniques, produit et organisationnels sont étroitement liés : priorisation, structuration de la stack, accompagnement d’équipes et prise de décision. Habitué à travailler en autonomie avec des fondateurs ou CTO. Bilingue français / anglais.
Work experience
CTO puis CTPO
Fifty — Scale-up SaaS B2B (~30 personnes)
Aug 2018 - Present
8 years 3 months
69340 Francheville, France
Pendant 8 ans chez Fifty, j’ai piloté la conception, le développement et l’évolution d’un produit SaaS utilisé par des dizaines de milliers d’utilisateurs, dans des contextes allant de startups en croissance à des grands groupes aux contraintes fortes (sécurité, RGPD, processus). Mon rôle a évolué avec l’entreprise : d’un CTO très hands-on, impliqué dans le développement et l’architecture, à un rôle plus transverse mêlant stratégie technique, culture produit et structuration des équipes. Ce que j’y ai concrètement fait • Construction et scalabilité de la stack : architecture, performance, fiabilité, gestion de la dette technique sur un produit en forte croissance. • Management et organisation : équipe tech d’environ 10 personnes, mise en place de modes de fonctionnement favorisant l’autonomie et la responsabilité. • Culture produit : travail en Shape Up, arbitrage entre enjeux business, produit et techniques, avec un fort focus sur l’impact réel des livraisons. • Environnements exigeants : intégration chez des grands comptes, sujets de sécurité, conformité RGPD, fiabilité et gouvernance, avec des attentes élevées côté métier. • Décisions structurantes : priorisation, arbitrages techniques, accompagnement de phases de croissance, de refonte ou de stabilisation. Ce que cette expérience m’a appris • Travailler à l’interface tech / produit / business, sans silos. • Être opérationnel sans perdre la vision d’ensemble. • Savoir quand coder, quand structurer, et quand décider. Stack: C#, javascript, Redis, AWS, MySQL, Postgre, LLM, Cursor, Claude code, vuejs, typescript, RabbitMQ
Software Engineer
BlaBlaCar
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
1 year 7 months
Paris Area, France
– Making blablacar search better and more efficient across millions of Trips. – Previously working in Less (acquired by Blablacar in 2018), creating new product for a short-distance live carsharing, uber pool like with car sharing live problems. – Technologies: Java, C#/.NetCore, EF, MySql, Postgre, DynamoDb, ElasticSearch, Redis, Javascript, TypeScript, Kibana, AWS, github, jenkins
Java software developer
Rice Warner
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
6 months
Key Responsibilities: – Designing and implementing the new insurance comparator web API Major Achievements: – Fully automated the process – Massively increased the performances Technologies: Java, MySQL, JavaScript, AWS, REST
Self-contractor as C++ software developer
Pebble Beach Systems
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
6 months
Remote
– Working for the same company, but remotely from Sydney, Australia. (See previous experience) Key Responsibilities: – Designing the new licensing system for our products – Implementing the new licensing system for our best seller product using the Sentinel SDK from Safenet
Software Developer
Personal Project
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
2 months
Technologies: Node.js, Express, Mongodb, Ubuntu, Nginx Major Achievements: – Created the website and its back-end. Configured the dedicated server.
C++ software developer
Pebble Beach Systems
Jul 2013 - Sep 2015
2 years 3 months
Weybridge, London, England
Technologies: – C++, Qt, SQL Server – TCP, UDP, SOAP, Serial – Visual studio, Git, wireshark, Jira (ITSM) Overview: – Pebble Beach Systems is a leader in the automation systems for broadcasters – Member of a team of 3-5 people using scrum/Agile methodologies Key Responsibilities: – Implementing new features / fixing bugs – Gathering requirement and fulfilling needs of customer's and support team's – In charge of the driver part of the software, estimating tickets, reviewing code – Designing new features using UML (class, sequence, FSM diagrams etc.) – Mentoring and managing junior developers: supervising and code reviewing their tickets Major Achievements: – Managed to adapt to a massive and complex code base – Worked in a demanding and performance-driven sector – Designed the new license system of the company's best-seller software
C++ software developer
Freelance
Jun 2014 - Nov 2014
6 months
Technologies: – C++, boost, MySQL Overview: – MySQL main project aims at predicting the evolution in the share price of a specific company based on mentions of the company's name in the French press. The articles are analysed based on key words/expressions using an algorithm. Key Responsibilities: – Requirements, design, implementation, tests of the software Major Achievements: – Multithreaded application using the suffix tree data structure – Efficient MySQL scripts – A special care was given to the performance to be able to ingest as much data as possible
Developer
McDonald's Corporation
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
3 months
69340 Francheville, France
Key Responsibilities: – Developing, designing new decision-making application for the intranet of M.C. Donald's France to complete/develop their mobility plan Major Achievements: – Adapting to M.C. Donald's methods of programming – Creating ad-hoc solution that fits customers' needs – Delivering working product within the short imposed deadline
Service Desk Manager
Atos
Jan 2012 - Aug 2012
8 months
Project overview: – In the IT hardware / Software support team for the London 2012 Games Key Responsibilities: – Supervising the hardware installation team – Supervising the service desk team (during Games time) – Improving installation processes – Ensuring that the right personnel are assigned to solving IT issues and will ensure all issues are solved Major Achievements: – Managing teams of up to 20-25 technicians – Working in a challenging environment – Organizing wide implementations with large teams
Junior developer
CognoLink Limited
Jul 2011 - Dec 2011
6 months
Technologies: – PHP, JQUERY, AJAX, MYSQL, Offspring, UNIX Key Responsibilities: – Implementing new functionalities in the intranet and extranet within the company's framework
Freelance Developer
Who's My Guide
Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
1 year 1 month
Project overview: – Who's My Guide.com, a website dedicated to the tourism sector Technologies: – PHP, JQUERY, AJAX, MYSQL, Drupal Key Responsibilities: – Developing the website. Responsible for the design, architecture, ergonomics and structure. – Installing and configuring the Debian server FTP/SQL/PHP/Paybox (payment system) Major Achievements: – Respecting deadlines – Writing specifications – Understanding needs and finding solutions
Education
HEI - Hautes Etudes d'Ingénieur
Master's degree, Information Technology
2007 - 2013
6 years 1 month