Samir Nasser Eddine

CTO & Applied AI Leader

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

LLMs / Large language modelsAIAWSKubernetesFullstack DevelopmentReactVueNodeDeep LearningSwiftAzurePythonMachine LearningGoogle Cloud PlatformDockerProduct ManagementCSR

Languages

Arabic (Fluent)English (Fluent)French (Fluent)JapanesePortugueseSpanish

About me

Intro

- Hands-on CTO and two-time founder with 15+ years building software and AI products from zero to scale. - Combines technical execution with product strategy, customer discovery, and engineering leadership. - Most recently co-founded toongether, raised $3.5M, and built and scaled an AI platform that has generated millions of comic panels. - Previously at Apple and Dashlane.

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Work experience

Co-founder

toongether

Jun 2023 - Present

3 years 5 months

Paris, France

• Co-founded toongether, an AI-assisted comic creation platform, and led product and technology. • Raised $3.5M seed (firstminute capital, Bluewire capital, VR Fund). • Scaled AI-powered image generation and storytelling features used to create 1M+ comics and tens of millions of images, reaching 100K+ daily generations and terabytes of weekly media traffic. • Designed and operated autoscaling GPU clusters across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Scaleway for model training and inference. • Supervised training of a custom background-removal model (arXiv) that outperforms Photoroom on the comic use case. • Featured as a Google AI Studio case study (https://aistudio.google.com/case-studies/toongether)

Fractional CTO

Independent ConsultantFreelance

Jan 2021 - Present

5 years 10 months

Paris, France

• Advised startups and scale-ups on product strategy, technical architecture, and team building. • AlayaCare: led delivery and launch of a secure messaging platform that reached $240K ARR within 14 weeks of general availability. • Petal Health: advised on its secure messaging platform, cloud architecture, and engineering team organization. • Troops.fr: restructured the engineering team. • Jobo: advised on product and company strategy. Also worked with: Co-CTO, Flirc, Mural, OpenClassrooms, Springboard.

CTPO

ViJi

Sep 2020 - Dec 2022

2 years 4 months

69340 Francheville, France

Acquired by K3 Business Technology Group • ViJi is a platform for tracking and promoting eco-responsible actions in the fashion industry. • Scaled the platform to 5 major brands (e.g. Samsøe Samsøe, Devred) plus dozens of smaller brands, tracking thousands of suppliers and millions of ESG data points across textile supply chains. • Designed a graph-based software architecture and migrated to an enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-based cloud stack to handle CSR data collection across complex multi-tier supply chains. • Ran a successful proof-of-concept for blockchain-based ESG data tracking. • Acquisition: led tech and product due diligence, built the strategic case, and drove integration planning post-close.

Co-Founder

Teleport

Mar 2019 - Dec 2021

2 years 10 months

Paris, France

Co-founded and raised pre-seed funding for a distributed-work hardware and SaaS product; led development from mechanical design and supply chain through working prototype and SaaS platform, then delivered 50 pilot deployments with companies including EY and Willo. To find out more 👉https://www.producthunt.com/products/teleport-7#teleport-fa7a78e0-9d2e-40b0-8bd0-c356d4a58567

CTO

Workwell

Oct 2016 - Jan 2019

2 years 4 months

Paris, France

Acquired by Mitsui Fudosan • Workwell is a platform that centralized office and workplace services. • Built and led a team of 20 (engineering and product) from scratch. • Scaled to 70+ enterprise clients (Hines, Orange, LVMH, Société Générale, and half of the French CAC 40), across hundreds of office buildings and 20,000+ employees. • Defined the security architecture and guidelines across all platform components, required for enterprise real estate deployments.

CTO

Striply

Aug 2015 - Oct 2016

1 year 3 months

Paris, France

• Striply is a messaging platform that turns conversations into comic strips. • Raised €2M. Built and led a technical team of 8. • Scaled to 600K monthly active users and millions of comic panels and messages created. • Led architecture for the full stack and contributed hands-on across backend, iOS, and Unity engine.

Tech lead

Dashlane

Feb 2012 - Aug 2015

3 years 7 months

Paris, France

– Led development of Dashlane’s macOS and iOS apps from launch through hyper-growth to 5M+ users by 2015. Apps featured by David Pogue in The New York Times (June 2013). – Engineering manager for the macOS team (3) and Scrum Master for the iOS team (4). Built and ran the engineering recruitment process, interviewing 50+ engineers. – Initiated and led the rollout of agile methodologies, first in the macOS team and then across all Dashlane developer teams.

Software Engineer

Apple

Dec 2011 - Feb 2012

3 months

Cupertino, CA, USA

Built tools to automate iPhone dictionary generation. Developed RTL language translation and localization solutions, including BiDi algorithm work.


Education

Wakayama University

Computer Vision

2009 - 2010

1 year 2 months

Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)

Master's degree, Computer Science

2007 - 2010

3 years 2 months

Lebanese University - Faculty of Engineering III

Diplomes de Tronc Commun (two years university diplomas in preparation to engineer sciences), Maths, Physics, Engineering

2005 - 2007

2 years 2 months


Licenses & certifications

Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning

Issued: May 2023

Certified by Coursera

Machine Learning Specialization

Issued: May 2023

Certified by Coursera

Advanced Learning Algorithms

Issued: Mar 2023

Certified by Coursera

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

Issued: Feb 2023

Certified by Coursera

Blockchain Basics

Issued: Aug 2022

Certified by Coursera

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production

Issued: May 2022

Certified by Coursera

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine

Issued: May 2022

Certified by Coursera

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads

Issued: May 2020

Certified by Coursera

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Issued: Mar 2020

Certified by Coursera

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations

Issued: Mar 2020

Certified by Coursera

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