Developer, team lead, VP of Engineering, co-founder, CTO. I've held every seat in the engineering org chart, which is exactly why I'm useful in yours. And I still write the code.
2005 – 2013 · Paris
FX options trading systems at Société Générale. I went from developer to leading a team of six, managing project budgets up to €1M for the trading floor. When your code prices live trades, "mostly works" is not a category. That discipline never left me.
After eight years I wanted to build products of my own choosing, at startup speed. I gave myself a year around the world to decide where. The answer was Asia.
2016 – 2019 · Hong Kong
Landed in Hong Kong and joined Zwoop as the first technical hire. Built the e-commerce platform's microservices architecture and the data pipelines around its machine-learning core, reaching 98% accuracy in product matching. The same year, I co-founded LearningBros, a marketplace where teachers and trainers could share and monetize what they know, building the platform end to end myself: my first taste of building for my own users.
2019 – 2021 · Hong Kong
Joined Zegal, the legaltech scale-up, as lead engineer. Left as VP of Engineering with a remote team of 18 across time zones. Production issues halved, releases every two weeks, QA defects down 50%, and three squads that ran themselves because their leads were mentored, not managed.
2021 – 2024 · Hong Kong
Co-founded Yicom and took a B2B services platform from concept to market launch: pulled development in-house from a dev shop, went remote-first across ASEAN (hiring costs down 70%), and secured HK$2M in government funding. Three years of managing a founder's runway first-hand are worth more than any certification when I'm advising founders on theirs.
2024 – today · Hong Kong, worldwide
I founded CTO As A Service Limited to do the job I kept being asked to do informally: senior technical leadership for companies that need it in slices. Current clients include 28one, where I led the rebuild of a quality-control platform and moved its engineering team to AI-native workflows, and FanForce, where I'm the hands-on product and technology lead.
The AI shift is the most interesting thing to happen to software in my twenty years. A small team that builds with agents, guardrails, and taste can now outship the big teams of five years ago. Helping companies cross that gap is the best part of this job. If your company is on the wrong side of it, that is exactly the work I do now.
Four things every client gets, stated up front so nobody is surprised later.
If your product idea has a fatal flaw, you hear it in week one, not month six. I'd rather lose an engagement than let a client burn runway politely.
I review code by reading it and prove approaches by building them. Advice from someone who stopped coding years ago is archaeology.
Every engagement transfers skill: documented processes, mentored leads, and a team that keeps the standard after I leave. Dependency is a failure state.
Architecture, hiring, and tooling are ways to reach commercial outcomes. If a boring stack gets you to market faster, you're getting the boring stack.
Tell me what you're building and what's in the way. The intro call is free and honest.
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