Summary
Christophe Cassagnabère is an expert software engineer and technical leader with 11 years of professional experience and a PhD in computer science, now based in Lausanne. He has led engineering teams and product-critical technical efforts across startups and scaleups—most recently as Expert at ELCA Group after four years as Software Engineering Team Lead at Evooq and a CTO role at Virtual Regatta. His hands-on background spans data engineering, machine learning, backend systems and cloud-native operations, with practical experience in Python, Spark, Kafka, Go, Docker and AWS. Christophe combines research rigor from his academic career with pragmatic leadership, having shipped data-driven systems at Sqreen and Zenly and overseen R&D teams earlier in his career. Colleagues describe him as an enthusiastic problem-solver who moves fluidly between strategic design and low-level implementation. He also brings an uncommon blend of production-grade data engineering and long-term academic research perspective to system architecture and team mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Research Master, Computer Sience, Research Master, Computer Sience at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I)
Bachelor, Mathematical Siences, Bachelor, Mathematical Siences at Université du Havre
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
Master degree in Engineering, Computer Sience and Telecommunications Systems, Master degree in Engineering, Computer Sience and Telecommunications Systems at IMT Nord Europe
French, English