Summary
François Violette is a developer knowledge and information architecture leader with nine years' experience shaping developer experience, content strategy, and semantics for product teams. As part of the CTO Office at Contentsquare he helps engineers succeed at information design and knowledge management, combining hands-on systems thinking with practical Docs-as-Code workflows. He has led enterprise documentation transformations, modeled ontologies for psychometrics, and designed OpenAPI-driven SDKs, bringing a rare mix of taxonomy-driven architecture, technical writing, and product management. A visiting lecturer in Content Design at Université de Paris, he teaches applied systems thinking and microcopy alongside tooling like Figma and SPARQL, reflecting a strong bridge between academic practice and industry delivery. Notably, his background spans both team leadership—building and training documentation teams—and deep technical work such as API design and semantic modeling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1, Foreign Applied Languages (LEA), Master 1, Foreign Applied Languages (LEA) at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
Bachlelor, English Literature and Civilization, Bachlelor, English Literature and Civilization at Université Paris - Val-de-Marne (Paris XII)