François Aubert

Senior CTO | AI & Data-Intensive Software

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

KubernetesMachine LearningSQL QueriesCassandraTypescriptETLSnowflakeKafkaReactDatadogPythonTerraformAnsibleTailwind CSSSupabasedbtAWSLogisticsRedisAWS LambdaDjangoLLMs / Large language models

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

CTO with 8+ years building mission-critical AI-driven SaaS platforms serving $1B+ enterprises. Built and scaled Pricemoov from zero to 20+ enterprise clients, leading a 20-person engineering team across full-stack development, ML pipelines, and real-time distributed systems achieving 99.9% SLA. Expert in Python/Django, Kubernetes, AWS infrastructure, and productionizing LLM-powered solutions—delivering SOC 2 certified platforms that drive seven-figure ARR wins.

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Work experience

Investor

Phacet

Jan 2024 - Present

2 years 10 months

Paris, France

Chief Technology Officer | Co-founder

Pricemoov

Nov 2016 - Present

10 years

Paris, France

– Built a scalable AI-driven dynamic pricing SaaS platform from scratch, now serving 20+ enterprise customers including multiple $1B+ revenue companies. – Led and grew a high-performing product-engineering team (20+ across 4 squads) by setting clear performance standards, implementing growth-oriented feedback systems, and fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning. – Hands-on technical leadership with strong individual contribution across the entire stack: – Back: Python (Django), distributed services (Kubernetes, Redis, Celery, Lambda, SQS) – Front: TypeScript (React), TailwindCSS – Data: Designed, Implemented and maintained scalable ETL pipelines (Snowflake, SQL, S3, Step function, DBT, Dagster) processing pricing data at multi-terabyte scale – Infra: Led design and operations on AWS + EKS, scaling Kubernetes workloads and optimizing cost/performance across multiple services. Provisioned and managed environments using Terraform, including network, compute, and DB layers. Implemented SLO/SLA frameworks (Datadog) for business-critical services (Price API connected in real-time to customer websites). – Performance: High-concurrency environments. SLA 99.9% – ML: Designed ML pipelines (LSTM,GAM) and productionization efforts. – AI Stack: Developed autonomous Pricing Agents using LangGraph, Supabase, and LLMs (Gemini/Claude). – Owned end-to-end delivery of complex enterprise integrations via a dedicated team of Forward Deployed Engineers from scoping to deployment. – Led pre-sales engagements across Retail, B2B, Transportation and Rental industry, translating deep technical capabilities into compelling solutions, contributing to multiple seven-figure ARR client wins. – Drove and maintained SOC 2 Type II certification, leading all technical aspects of security and compliance across the company. – Building the next generation pricing platform. Involved in all the aspects of building from the ground up an AI-powered Data-Intensive SAAS.

Machine Learning Engineer

Artefact

Apr 2016 - Sep 2016

6 months

Paris, France

– Built and improved reinforcement learning recommendation (RL) engine for major French companies. – Improved accuracy of proprietary bidding algorithm (multi-armed bandit). – Architected and deployed distributed real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Apache Storm, Cassandra) ingesting hundreds of events/sec, enabling sub-second bidding. – Automated deployment (Ansible) and managed cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Software Support Engineer

Clarins Group

Feb 2015 - Jul 2015

6 months

New York, NY, USA

– Delivered technical support and enhancements for enterprise software systems.

Logistics & Operations Manager (@Rocket Internet Venture)

HelloFresh

Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

6 months

Sydney NSW, Australia

– Led the distribution of the products in New South Wales (~2000 packages per week) with increase in customers' basis (200% in 6 months). – Achieved 10% in cost savings thanks to dispatch and routes optimization algorithms.

Mathematics Examiner at Lycée Hoche de Versailles

Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (France)

Sep 2012 - Jul 2014

1 year 11 months

78000 Versailles, France


Education

Lycée Hoche

LYCÉE FRANÇAIS SAINT LOUIS DE STOCKHOLM

Centrale Supélec

Master of Science (MS), Robotics Engineering

2012 - 2015

3 years 1 month

ESCP Europe

Business Management, Business Management

2014 - 2014

1 month

– Berlin Campus

Lycée Hoche

PCSI-PSI*, Mathematics, Physics

2010 - 2012

2 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Learning to scale

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