Summary
Francois Planque is a seasoned software founder and maintainer with over 22 years of experience building web platforms, CMSs and bespoke engineering for the financial and publishing sectors. He ran b2evolution as its long-time project maintainer for 18 years and now focuses on private investing and quantitative trading, developing software for research, data management and strategy execution. Comfortable across product, R&D and CTO roles, he has a history of shipping early mobile CRM work and pioneering database-backed web services in the late 1990s. Based in Luxembourg, he combines deep open-source stewardship with hands-on trading systems development, blending entrepreneurial grit with a preference for practical, long-lived engineering. An understated detail: his career spans both consumer-facing CMS leadership and low-latency quantitative systems, a rare bridge between web-scale projects and finance-grade execution.
22 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
University of Pennsylvania
English, French, German