Professional Career

Despite numerous experiences both in terms of roles assumed (developer, teacher, technical architect, open source consultant, functional expert, pre-sales, project manager, product manager, technical director, manager) and domains explored (public sector, health, banking, transportation, industry), I consider myself an IT architect.

Studies, Between Two Continents

After studying science in Senegal and then in France, I joined the National Institute of Telecommunications through its business school and finished my last year in the engineering school, specializing in corporate networks.

I then completed my military service as a cooperating agent in Senegal (the birth country of my mother where I grew up from 6 to 18 years old), working as a computer science teacher and internet manager at the Multinational Higher School of Telecommunications ESMT (French) from 1997 to 1999.

Architecture, Open Source, and... Architecture

Returning to France in 1999, in Paris (where I have lived since), I joined Sema Group as a technical architect. The company changed its name following acquisitions and mergers (Sema, SchlumbergerSema, Atos Origin, Atos). The Atos period roughly coincided with my specialization in Open Source: participating in the creation of the Open Source Center, in charge of monitoring and consulting activities, creating the method and the free project QSOS... while continuing to support or design the architecture of solutions for clients.

In 2013, I moved to Worldline (then still a subsidiary of the Atos group) as a product manager and then architect in the unit in charge of major governmental projects. There, I gained the dimension of enterprise architect, participating in and then taking charge of the design and pre-sales of information systems.

For me, the profession of an architect is that of a polyglot, capable of understanding and translating the languages of the different stakeholders involved in the architecture of a solution or an information system, each with its own challenges and constraints (strategic, organizational, business, technological, infrastructure, etc.).

Technical Evangelist, Head of DevRel

My previous experiences in communication and popularization around technology (teaching, architecture consulting, open source monitoring, speaking, pre-sales of major projects) naturally led me to take responsibility for a DevRel team (for Developer Relations) in charge of technological evangelism both internally and externally at Worldline.

This notably involves the creation of content and activities such as conferences, articles, or technical videos.