
François Aubert
Senior CTO | AI & Data-Intensive Software
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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.
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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