2005 – 2013 · Paris
Where software had to be right
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.
It ended the way these stories often do: overworked, on-call at night, deploying on
weekends, and watching the budget go to a shinier team. So I took the trip everyone
talks about and nobody takes: a year around the world. Broke a collarbone along the
way, flew home for surgery, and got back on the road.
2016 – 2018 · Hong Kong
First hire, blank whiteboard
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, while the company raised multiple
multi-million dollar rounds. Also co-founded LearningBros on the side: my first taste
of building for myself.
2019 – 2021 · Hong Kong
Learning to scale people, not just systems
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
The founder years
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. I also learned what running out of money
feels like, which is worth more than any certification when I'm advising founders on
their runway.
2024 – today · Hong Kong, worldwide
The fractional practice
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 rebuilt 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 eighteen years.
A small team that builds with agents, guardrails, and taste now outships the big teams
of five years ago. Helping companies cross that gap is the best part of this job.
