Florent Empis

Independent contractor, working for several companies: • Parisian HR service: product roadmap management, data engineering, customer deployment • German cryptography service: go to market, product positionning • French startups: early stage board member/mentor • The Good Ones portfolio continued support

Technical operating partner in a PE boutique firm Combination of my technical and business skills, serving entrepreneurship.

In charge of the dev, test & support teams of a SaaS Provider In close proximity to the CTO & the Head of Product, I managed the teams in charge of the development lifecycle (dev, test, support) of a series of SaaS products geared towards retailers & carriers. Initially team leader for 48 people, I created the relevant middle management roles and reorganized teams to increase productivity and promote creativity. I left this great company after setting the reorg in motion to focus on a yet to be announced entrepreneurial adventure.

In charge of the "data" roadmap for a financial sector software provider, connecting investment banking and stock exchanges. I guide the team in its quest to apply innovative methods such as deep learning and timeseries manipulation at the microsecond scale using a variety of technologies (Kafka, ClickHouse, various ML libraries) and ensure that it has a coherent place in the existing ecosystem.

Managing a team of 5 product managers (and 30+ tech employees managed) focusing on the "customer delivery" part of the customer journey for Adeo Business Units: teams working on Order Management Systems, teams on B2C Transport Management System.

Management of technical teams at Meelo, a fintech specialised in fraud & risk management

Co-Founder and CTO of a software provider for retail marketing Use big data and statistical engineering to personnalize the consumer/retailer relationship. As the CTO, I am in charge of R&D, collaborating with world class researchers in the data science field and some of the biggest european retailers, coordinating a team of 8 engineers. As the CEO of the company, in charge of investors relationship, strategical partnership with software providers & research institutes.

Part-time teacher on the following subjects: *Deep learning (Spring 2017) Audience: Graduate students in software engineering *Introduction to Big Data (Spring 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) Audience: Graduate students in software engineering *Information Security (Fall 2007, Fall 2009): Audience: Graduate students in software engineering Graduate students in network & system engineering *VOIP technology (Fall 2008, Fall 2009): Audience: Graduate students in network & system engineering

"Digital go-to guy" for the real estate company of Groupe Auchan, one of the largest retail companies in Europe Designing a plateform for a new web based 3D shopping experience Coordinating and managing external ressources working on a dozen projects

Part-time teacher for Msc students in IT/CS. Information Security panorama: physical security, defensive programming, IT security, social engineering....