Cyril Dever is an entrepreneur and innovator with over two decades of experience founding and scaling digital ventures, currently leading Pep's Technology and advising clients as Lead Data & Tech at Okuden. He blends hands-on engineering (Go, TypeScript, Scala, cloud, data pipelines, blockchain) with product and corporate leadership, having built platforms, patented privacy technologies and acted as CTO/CEO in multiple companies. His work spans privacy-enhancing tech, identity management, AI/ML data platforms and full-stack SaaS implementations, plus practical devOps and CI/CD for production-grade systems. A builder of teams and businesses, he has led fundraising rounds, recruited and managed engineering groups, and served more than 80 clients across industries. Notably, he is part of the web’s early generation, has academic grounding in Big Data from Harvard and MIT courses, and maintains active open-source and publishing footprints (GitHub, Medium, npm, PyPI). He frames innovation as useful invention—turning community-driven learnings and failures into deployable solutions that serve customers.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Direction littéraire et Expertise scénaristique, Direction littéraire et Expertise scénaristique at Conservatoire Européen d'Ecriture Audiovisuelle (CEEA)
Bac D, Bac D at Lycée Hoche, Versailles
DESS, Conseil et Formation, DESS, Conseil et Formation at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
MSG, Contrôle de Gestion & Finances d'Entreprise, MSG, Contrôle de Gestion & Finances d'Entreprise at Paris Dauphine University - PSL
Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, Tackling the Challenges of Big Data at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Big Data Analytics (CSCI-E63), Big Data Analytics (CSCI-E63) at Harvard University
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.