Summary
Aurélien Picard is a pragmatic CTO and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-driven platforms across startups in Paris. He currently leads Alto AI, developing an NLP-powered virtual medical secretary that handles patient calls 24/7, and previously drove backend and architecture as a senior engineer and CTO at fast-moving startups. His hands-on background spans Node.js, Ruby on Rails, microservices, Kubernetes, Firebase, and messaging systems like Kafka, with repeated successes in reducing latency and improving team productivity. He has led teams up to six engineers, shipped multiple apps from scratch, and turned pivots into viable technical strategies that landed paying customers. Notably, he blends product intuition with deep operational experience—migrating monoliths to microservices and cutting critical task times by up to 95%. Based in Paris, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a solid engineering education from EPITECH and practical international exposure from Griffith College.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
IT, IT at Griffith College Dublin
English, French