Summary
François Pellissier is a seasoned technology leader and part-time CTO with over 20 years of hands-on executive experience and 12 years specializing in fractional CTO roles for European scale-ups (10–50 people). He helps startups and VCs accelerate delivery, choose scalable IA/cloud stacks, transition to DevOps, and remediate security and compliance risks, often stepping in within 48–72 hours for urgent audits or second opinions. His background spans video, mobile, AR/VR, ad-tech and cloud platforms—having led engineering at companies like Viadeo, Kewego and KIT digital and run large-scale video platforms handling billions of API calls. François pairs strategic architecture decisions with people-first team structuring and recruitment, and he’s completed a dozen+ technical due diligences for Series A/B and growth investments. Comfortable toggling between short tactical engagements and 18-month transformation projects, he blends product-aware engineering with pragmatic cost and risk rationalization. Trained as an engineer at École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris, he quietly combines deep systems experience with rapid-response consulting availability.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Physique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Physique at École Polytechnique
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Image & Son, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Image & Son at Télécom Paris
English