I live near Grenoble, France, and I have been building software for eighteen years.
I started as a Java developer, then iOS. I went on to lead projects and teams: a contactless payment platform for Swiss and French banking groups, mobile games at Gameloft, a video game studio, a technical team of about twenty people. The Télé Grenoble iPhone app was me, a long time ago.
In recent years my job was mostly to scope and estimate projects for large companies. I was good at it, but I was no longer building anything with my own hands.
In February 2026 I got back to it, with AI tools. Since then I have shipped a real-time buzzer, two games, a data aggregator, the rebuild of a sports club website, and two tools for a 2003 strategy game I still play. This notebook records what I learn along the way, including when it does not work.
What these tools gave me back is the speed of the hand. Not the judgement.
A project from end to end
What sets me apart is not a speciality, it is the whole chain. I have held each of these roles, and today I hold all four on the same project.
- 01
Scope and estimate
Understand the real need behind the request, break it down, estimate uncertainty rather than volume, commit. Eight years of presales and technical leadership.
- 02
Design
Choose an architecture one person can sustain, and an interface a user understands without a manual.
- 03
Build
Write the code, with AI tools for typing and end-to-end tests for confidence. Seven years of iOS and Java development before leading.
- 04
Ship and maintain
Deploy, measure, fix what breaks on real devices, and leave a system someone else can take over.
What I have shipped
- 50+ web and mobile applications shipped across fintech, enterprise and consumer
- 10+ games shipped to stores: iOS, Android, PC, VR
- A 1M€+ contactless payment platform for Swiss and French banks, delivered on time
- Tome Keeper, an asymmetric VR multiplayer game on Meta Quest 3 and Android, from zero to alpha with 18 people
- 500k€+ in AI projects won per year, with a technical and sales team I built
- A game studio founded in Vietnam with 760k€ of investment
- A 2012 Schneider Electric Silver Trophy for the eCatalogue app
- Seven products online, built solo since February 2026
Career
Presales and solution consulting for VeryPay's digital payments and financial inclusion platforms across Africa and emerging markets. I own complex opportunities end to end, from first contact to handover to delivery.
Confidential computer vision programme: automated floor plan generation and real-time environment scanning on iOS, with AI/ML engineers, iOS developers and QA.
End-to-end presales for AI and software projects for fintech and education clients. Turning an ambiguous brief into a structured, costed proposal.
Produced a cross-platform VR multiplayer game from zero to a functional alpha, while overseeing a client portfolio worth 500k+ USD.
Founded a mobile game studio from scratch within SmartDev, managing 760k€ of investment across parallel project streams.
Owned the full pre-delivery pipeline of a 100+ person software company: client scoping, technical estimation, RFP responses, team capability development, university partnerships.
End-to-end product ownership of a 1M€+ contactless payment platform for Swiss and French banking groups, delivered on time in a highly regulated environment.
Led a 25-person cross-discipline team producing and evolving live mobile game titles.
iPad applications in Swift for a large Swiss industrial company, multi-country and multilingual. Indoor geolocation with CoreMotion, CoreLocation and socket.io.
Technical lead and Scrum Master on Schneider Electric's mobile projects. Team scaled from 2 to 8, Scrum implemented from scratch.
iPhone development for SFR (SFR Mail client), Natixis InterEpargne and Mootwin; push notification platform in Grails. Java/J2EE in a Scrum team for STMicroelectronics and SNCF, including an RFID tracking system in SOA.
Volunteering
Grenoble, France
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