
Evelyne Notton
CTO & CTPO
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Seasoned CTO and engineering leader with 20+ years guiding tech teams across SaaS B2B platforms. Proven expertise in M&A due dil, cloud migrations, and scaling engineering organizations of 80+ professionals. Specializing in transforming organizational structures and implementing efficient delivery processes that align technology investments with business strategy. I bring strategic vision and operational excellence to help companies accelerate growth while maintaining technical stability.
Work experience
VP of Engineering
Colonies
May 2024 - Dec 2024
8 months
Paris, France
Colonies creates smart living housing solutions by designing and managing fully-furnished, community-minded quality homes located in large cities. VP of Engineering, Reporting to CEO: ▪ Management of 6 RoR Dev and Data profils ▪ Defined and implemented team structure and operational processes for product and tech. ▪ Led BI architecture ownership, ensuring data-driven decision-making. ▪ Aligned technology investment with business strategy, leading "build vs. buy" evaluations. ▪ Drove operational maturity through best practices in monitoring and performance tracking
VP of Engineering
PayFit France
Oct 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 3 months
Paris, France
PayFit makes Payroll and HR simple: it is the payroll management solution for small businesses. VP of Engineering, reporting to CTPO: ▪ Management of a tech team of 150 people, with Dev/DevOps/SW Engineer roles. ▪ Spearheaded organizational restructuring post-Departure Plan, improving productivity. ▪ Led cross-functional teams to deliver tech strategy aligned with growth goals. ▪ Defined and executed Dev efficiency roadmap, enhancing delivery and quality. ▪ Prioritized and reduced technical debt to stabilize and scale operations.
CTO
Splio
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
4 years 1 month
Paris Area, France
The Splio Loyalty Marketing platform combines marketing automation and loyalty to enable brands to orchestrate omnichannel campaigns and manage their loyalty programs on and offline. Headquartered in France, Splio has offices in China, Spain, Italy, and Poland and serves more than 500 clients. CTO – Reporting to CEO – ExCo Member: ▪ Directed operations for 75+ staff across Engineering, IT, QA, Data Science, and Security. ▪ Led M&A technical due diligence and post-acquisition integration. ▪ Managed cost-effective hybrid delivery models (Paris & Shanghai). ▪ Oversaw cloud migration (AWS) and platform modernization for growth scalability
CTO
Makazi
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
2 years
Paris Area, France
Makazi delivers a DMP solution in SaaS mode. Goal is to bring values to our clients data by: - being user centric: recouncile all user data (web, mobile, CRM) into a single user profile - allowing our clients to configure scoring on demand on these profiles - allowing our clients to build targets of users based on all criteria they provide, as soon as these criteria are available. These qualified targets can be send to several ESP and DSP and provide a better ROI As a CTO, I manage a team covering: - IT - Data scientist - Java/Scala/Spark developers - JS/REACT/RDUX developers - QA - Devops They are organized in functional Scrum teams. My role as CTO: - Work with VP Product Management to define product vision and roadmap - Organize the development teams around Agile/Scrum depending on the roadmap items - Report to the CEO - Manage the R&D and IT budgets
Director of Engineering
Altirnao
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
8 months
Paris Area, France
Altirnao's enterprise SaaS applications are used by Google Apps customers all around the world to improve the performance and security of their Google Apps domains, organize their documents and implement their business processes. My role as technical director: - Work with VP Product Management to define product vision and roadmap; communicate it - Organize the development teams around Agile/Scrum - Manage off-shore team - Daily follow up of the teams; communication on deliveries
Engineering Program Manager - ePM
Criteo
Jun 2014 - Mar 2016
1 year 10 months
Paris Area, France
Criteo delivers personalized performance marketing at an extensive scale. Measuring return on post-click sales, Criteo makes ROI transparent and easy to measure. Criteo has over 1,500 employees in 23 offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, serves over 7,800 advertisers worldwide and maintains direct relationships with over 10,000 publishers. Main role of the ePM is to make things done! What does that mean: - ensure coordination of the different R&D teams implicated in a project delivery - ensure communication on the project team delivery We also have to understand the technical part and we support the Agile organization. Teams and Projects I managed as an ePM: - SRE Core team - DevOps projects such as Chef setup to automatize Windows applications deployment through all Criteo datacenters. MESOS setup to ease Java applications deployment on a private Cloud. - SSO setup with an OpenAM platform - Web application to ease new advertisers on-boarding on Criteo platform, and help them setting up their javascript tracker, configuring their banners, pushing their product catalog - Facebook dynamic adds for publishers
Director of Engineering
SmartFocus
Feb 2011 - May 2014
3 years 4 months
Clichy, France
For more than a decade, SmartFocus has been trusted by thousands of mid-sized companies and large enterprises across a wide range of industries. Each year, the SmartFocus cloud marketing platform helps marketers around the world to plan and execute more than five million campaigns, manage more than five billion customer records, and deliver more than 50 billion personalised messages. The SmartFocus suite of products includes SmartFocus Email, SmartFocus Mobile, SmartFocus Social, SmartFocus Sites, SmartFocus Advisor, and SmartFocus Analytics. Management of the development team for (25 people): - SaaS platform - Email & Mobile solutions - Social network: Facebook, Twitter, ... - Move to BigData architecture - OpenAM SSO solution - Implementation of Agile/Scrum within the team - Automated deployment projects - setup the DevOps team Part of staff team for the first ProductCamp Paris event
CTO
Scroon
Apr 2008 - Jan 2011
2 years 10 months
Paris Area, France
ScrOOn provides social media solutions and marketing insights to engage consumers across multiple social networks and brand's web & mobile sites. ScrOOn works with advertisers, agencies and brands on a global basis, clients includes Orange, Nespresso, L'Oreal Garnier, Peugeot, Carrefour, Nissan... ScrOOn was successfully sold to BlackBerry in May 2013 to leverage the ScrOOn technology and teams and accelerate the development of the BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) social strategy for consumers and brands. My role as CTO - Direct reporting to CEO - Definition of development process and team organization - Development team management: one to one follow up, training organization, yearly team objectives definition - Production platform follow-up (administration and supervision) - Work in partnership with Sales & Marketing team - Budget management Implemented projects: - SaaS platform available through API that provides social sharing features. Used to setup faster advertising web sites. Funny projects we have realized: Karaoke platform for Carrefour Markt; video sharing platform for Guinees 250th birthday; <Bon plans> on ImagineR web site - Social network platform: manage in one place all your social profils and pages - Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
Program Manager
SEQUANS Communications
Nov 2005 - May 2008
2 years 7 months
La Défense
Sequans Communications is a world-leading 4G chipmaker, supplying LTE and WiMAX chips to equipment manufacturers and mobile operators globally. My role as Program Manager: - Wimax 802.16-2004 & 802.16-e program management - coordinate the different technical teams: ASIC, DSP, Hardware, software, test, RF
Project leader
LCMG/SFR
May 2004 - Oct 2005
1 year 6 months
MMS Solution manager: responsible of MMS system integration inside SFR infrastructure: managing functional implementation, and IP infrastructure configuration
Solution Manager - SFR
Vodafone Group
Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
1 year 1 month
Tech Leader
MOBILEWAY
Jan 2000 - May 2004
4 years 5 months
Paris, France
Several positions inside Mobileway: - Mobileway hub design and development - Management of SMS-C connection team, and trafic planification - Management of Infrastructure development team
Tech Leader
PARROT
Jul 1998 - Dec 1999
1 year 6 months
Paris, France
Managing development of electronic agenda using voice recognition
Software Engineer
ALTRAN/Delarue Card System
Feb 1996 - Jul 1998
2 years 6 months
Paris, France
Development of SIM cards used in GSM handset. Development of JavaCard, for GSM toolkit standard.
Education
ESSEC Business School
Executive Director
2025 - 2026
1 year 3 months
CRA Formation
2025 - 2025
2 months
CentraleSupélec
Engineer
1992 - 1995
2 years 11 months