Christophe Desclaux
CTO at JAGUARDS
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolChristophe Desclaux is a hands-on CTO and founder with 14 years of experience turning early-stage products into mission-critical software used by national operators like SNCF and AirFrance. He built and scaled Jaguards from solo developer to an 11-person team, leading a full rewrite to a highly industrialized Spring/Angular platform and delivering crisis-management and supervision systems at regional and national scale. An entrepreneur since age 23, he founded a semantic/NLP startup (Reador) incubated at Inria, sold the company after winning competitions, and has deep expertise in semantic web, NLP, and high-throughput processing. Comfortable across the stack and operations—architecture, DevOps, recruitment and customer-facing technical leadership—he prefers bootstrapped, fast-moving teams and pragmatic execution. His background includes organizing StartupWeekends and a period as a full-time digital nomad, experiences that sharpened his mentoring, cross-cultural communication and product intuition. Currently focused on growing tech companies as CTO, he blends research-rooted skills (semantic technologies, identity management) with proven delivery at scale.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Scientifique, maths, physique, Baccalauréat Scientifique, maths, physique at Lycée BeaussierClasses préparatoires aux grandes écoles, Information Technology, Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, Information Technology at Polytech Nice SophiaeMBA Candidate, eMBA Candidate at EDHECCycle ingénieur en informatique, informatique, Cycle ingénieur en informatique, informatique at Polytech'Nice-SophiaSemestre d'étude ERASMUS, Informatique, Semestre d'étude ERASMUS, Informatique at ETSIIT Grenade (Espagne)Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at European Innovation AcademyChallenge +, Entrepeneurship, Challenge +, Entrepeneurship at HEC Paris
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (86)
sentry10
django10
monitor10
bundle9
monitoring9
feed9
python9
devops9
crash-reports9
apm9
error-logging8
aggregator8
jquery-plugin8
php8
symfony8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
descl/ZONE
Feb 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:805 commits in 1 year 10 months
rsszonerss-readerrss-feedfeed
SemanticExperts/carbone-api
Sep 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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