Summary
Arnaud Favier is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering and entrepreneurial experience, combining a PhD in Distributed Systems from Sorbonne/INRIA with business training at INSEAD. He has founded multiple startups—most recently an AI phone-call management platform—and previously built a blockchain-native advertising product that introduced temporary NFTs and an e‑commerce jewelry brand that generated over €2M in revenue across 40 countries. Technically grounded in distributed algorithms, cloud backends and real-time data pipelines, he has production experience from HubSpot to research grids like Grid'5000. Comfortable straddling research and product, he teaches and published award-winning work on leader election in dynamic networks while shipping pragmatic systems. Based in Paris, he blends rigorous academic depth with hands-on startup execution and a knack for inventing unconventional product primitives.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Sorbonne Université
Associate Degree Computer Science, Associate Degree Computer Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Business Foundations, Business Foundations at INSEAD
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
French, English, Spanish