Jérôme Velociter
Senior Product Engineer & Tech Lead
Salary / Daily rate
Toulouse, France
Mobility: Paris, London, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Product engineer and tech lead with 20+ years building software from early-stage startups to production scale. Led engineering teams at agtech ventures, developed industrial IoT platforms across dozens of sites in three time zones, and co-led €4M funding round. Specialized in full-stack development, offline-first architecture, and fractional CTO services for startup teams requiring strategic technical leadership.
Work experience
Freelance Product Engineer & Tech Lead
jvelo.atFreelance
Sep 2026 - Present
2 months
Toulouse, France
Product engineering and tech leadership for startup teams, from early product decisions through to production. Full-time, part-time, or as a fractional CTO. Selected works: jvelo.at
Co-founder – Software, Product & Marketing
Orius
Sep 2021 - Aug 2026
5 years
Toulouse, France
Botanical research and production for cosmetics, nutrition and pharmaceuticals. Selected for France 2030 funding. • Built BiomeOS to run growth chambers across dozens of units in three time zones, and led two engineers maintaining field systems and evolving the platform. Its offline-first architecture keeps sites running through connectivity loss and syncs data to the cloud. • Enabled researchers to independently configure experiments, run them and perform statistical analysis on the resulting data, automating equipment configuration and data processing. • Built control and data software for two CNES projects: prototype greenhouses for lunar and Martian habitats, and Gravilab, a gravity simulator for plant biology. • Co-led a €4M funding round, owning the investment narrative and investor materials, and led company marketing across brand, website and sales collateral.
Agricool
Sep 2016 - Dec 2021
5 years 4 months
Paris Area, France
Director of Software Engineering
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
4 years
Paris Area, France
• Grew the engineering team from one engineer to eight, across embedded software, backend services, full-stack applications, DevOps and data science. • Led development and operation of the software platform for several dozen container farms in France and the UAE, spanning equipment control, data analytics, and back-office and mobile applications for growers, operations and sales. • Led the software platform’s evolution from standalone growth chambers to farms with shared infrastructure, replacing a Kotlin monolith with Go services and aligning software delivery with the hardware rollout.
Lead Software Engineer
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
• Designed and built the first versions of Agricool’s farming software, from industrial IoT automation to agronomic modelling. • Delivered remote crop management for year-round commercial indoor strawberry production, including a pilot farm in Dubai managed remotely over LTE.
Co-founder & Technical director
46cl
Jan 2011 - Oct 2016
5 years 10 months
Lyon, France
• Co-founded a web, mobile and UX agency and ran it for six years with a team of developers and designers, for clients from communications agencies to corporations. • Created and led development of Mayocat Shop, an open source multi-tenant commerce platform on the JVM spanning storefronts, merchant administration, payments and content management. Production sites still run on it 12+ years later.
Software engineer
XWiki
Feb 2007 - Aug 2011
4 years 7 months
Paris, France
• Core committer on the XWiki open source platform, contributing across back-end services and user-facing features. • Bootstrapped the Iași office in Romania on site over 18 months: hired, trained and managed its development team. • Led customer and partner projects from pre-sales to delivery. Mentor for Google Summer of Code in 2008.
Software developer intern
Frog Navigation Systems (now Oceaneering)
Sep 2005 - Oct 2006
1 year 2 months
Utrecht, Netherlands
Built Python QA tooling for AGV embedded computers and developed Java services.
Education
Télécom SudParis
International Business Engineering
2006 - 2007
1 year 1 month
IMT Nord Europe
Master of Science - MS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
2002 - 2007
5 years 1 month
Portfolio
Writer's cut
Tapemark
Mayocat Shop
Savannah
Typebar
BiomeOS
