Summary
Didier Girard is a seasoned technology leader and Managing Director at SFEIR with over two decades of hands-on development and 12+ years in senior leadership driving cloud, data and product strategy. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from ENS Lyon and brings rare research depth to practical engineering, having been a Google Cloud Developer Expert and authorized trainer since 2012. At SFEIR he builds teams, cloud and data architectures, and partner ecosystems while actively recruiting top engineering talent. A prolific conference speaker with 150+ talks, he blends technical authority with a talent for evangelizing innovation across web, mobile and enterprise platforms. Passionate about programming and economic disruption, he also co-directs WENVISION and contributes editorially to Tech.Rocks, signaling a commitment to community and thought leadership beyond day-to-day operations. Notably, his background in cognitive sciences and ML gives him a unique perspective on building data-driven products that scale.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur ISTG 3i, Diplôme d'ingénieur ISTG 3i at Polytech Grenoble
DEA Cognitive Sciences, DEA Cognitive Sciences at Grenoble INP - UGA
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at École normale supérieure de Lyon
English