Summary
Chris Navas is a Cloud Advisor and solutions architect based in Paris with 11 years of focused experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, IoT systems, and CI/CD platforms. He blends hands-on CTO experience for startups and freelance clients with enterprise roles at SNCF and Bpifrance, consistently delivering Docker/Kubernetes, Raspberry Pi/Modbus IoT, and scalable cloud architectures. A pragmatic builder who started in R&D and web entrepreneurship, he’s comfortable moving between low-level systems, cloud provider platforms (OVH/AWS/Azure), and product-facing APIs. Chris runs ongoing CTO-as-a-service engagements while advising at WeScale and NumSpot, showing a mix of long-term strategy and day-to-day operational ownership. He also teaches and evangelizes technical practices, having led workshops for SORACOM and lectured at university level, reflecting a knack for translating complex infra into usable knowledge. Quietly eclectic, his background spans minitel/web roots to modern IoT and cloud — a continuum that gives him a rare perspective on system reliability and pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BTS, INFORMATIQUE INDUSTRIELLE : SPECIALISATION ROBOTIQUE, BTS, INFORMATIQUE INDUSTRIELLE : SPECIALISATION ROBOTIQUE at Lyces Lorgues
Maîtrise d’informatique, SYSTEMES D’EXPLOITATION ET SYSTEMES EXPERTS, Maîtrise d’informatique, SYSTEMES D’EXPLOITATION ET SYSTEMES EXPERTS at Université Paris X Nanterre
Baccalauréat F3, ELECTROTECHNICIEN, Baccalauréat F3, ELECTROTECHNICIEN at St Elois