Thierry D.

New York, NY, USA

CTO, Technical Architect, Software Craftsman, 3x CTO / Founder / First engineer, Grew 2 software companies until their acquisition

I have a proven track record in bootstrapping and leading engineering activities within a startup.

My expertise includes:

- Leading technical strategy and designing pragmatic software architecture

- Building and growing the engineering team (including remote/distributed)

- Establishing processes to support and enforce the SDLC.

- Collaborating with the Product team and the leadership to identify the MVP and set key milestones.

When it makes sense, I am happy to be super hands-on and directly contribute to the code, the infrastructure or the deployment automation.

Open to Fractional CTO work and more globally any technical / architecture advisory for startups.

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Work

Nuxeo
As the founding Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Nuxeo for 16 years, I orchestrated the company's evolution from a nascent startup in Paris to a robust entity culminating in a successful US acquisition.

Here are key highlights from my journey:

- Collaborated closely with the CEO to reboot Nuxeo: pivoting both our technological approach and business model.
- Spearheaded the full re-architecture …
hyland.com
Prolaio
I joined Prolaio as the first engineer to build a Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) platform, tailored to enhance care for patients with heart disease by delivering crucial insights.

- Hire and structure the Core Engineering team
- Design and architect the Cloud Platform (Data Pipeline / AI / Research)
- Implement the software and the automated deployment
- Manage Security and Compliance automatic checks

After raising Series A, we acquired a bigger company and joining teams and technologies
prolaio.com
Unilog H2H
H2H was an internal startup effort from Unilog to acquire knowledge and build a service offer centered on collaboration tools.
I joined H2H as the 2nd employee and CTO.

During the 3 years business plan we achieved the following milestones:
- Create and Grow an engineering team of 10+
- Build the technical offering : Software selection, Engineering skills, Methodologies
- Meet the Sales and Client acquisition goals

Since H2H was a success, the team was "swallowed" by the bigger group: resources and knowledge were dispatched in the Unilog group.

Unilog was then acquired by Logica and then CGI.

Experience

Prolaio
Head of Engineering
Sep 2022 - Present
Joined Prolaio as the first engineer and built the Cloud Platform and the Engineering Team to support a Software as Medical Device.
- Design the cloud platform and deploy a first pilot in a clinical trial after 2 months.
Stellar Health
Staff Engineer / Platform Architect
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Joined the company as their first Staff Engineer / Platform architect and started initiating the work to make the platform more scalable and more secure.
- Spearheaded the transition to a Cloud First architecture
Hyland
Nuxeo CTO
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Transition the Nuxeo's engineering team into the Hyland organization and define convergence for Nuxeo Platform into Hyland's products portfolio.
- Worked jointly with CTOs of Hyland and Alfresco
Nuxeo
CTO / Founder
May 2005 - Apr 2021
Joined the company at early stage and drove the technology strategy and the engineering team. After rebooting the company by changing the business model and doing a complete re-platforming, I lead the engineering work to keep the platform ahead of the competition in terms of architecture, modularity and scalability. We progressively transitioned to a Cloud First approach and a pure SaaS Model. I lead the integration of AI/ML (Custom Models) into the Nuxeo Platform.
- Build a team of 45+ highly skilled engineers across US/FR/PT
- Nuxeo Platform was always recognized as the best architecture in ECM solutions
- Helped develop the company in the US and reach acquisition
Unilog H2H
CTO / Founder
Dec 2001 - May 2005
I started the H2H Journey with just the CEO and a 3 years business plan. I progressively built an engineering team and a technical solutions to compose a service offering for Unilog customers interested in improving collaboration.
- Build the first Opensource skills center for Unilog
- Succesfully execute the business plan so the startup is merged into the group
CryoNetworks
Architect / Senior developer
Jun 2001 - Dec 2001
Integrate SCOL Technology and VM for Linux and Firefox.
- Participate in re-platforming discussions to shape the future of the technology
- Bring new technology approaches (Scol Web Page generation engine)
Unilog IT Services
IT Consultant / Junior developer
Apr 1998 - May 2001
Worked for multiple implementation projects for Bank, Insurance and the Airspace industry.
- Became expert on the MS technologies of the moment (ActiveX, COM/DCOM)