Summary
Gilles Gerlinger is a seasoned technology and product leader with over two decades of experience building and managing web and mobile learning, media and app-store platforms, currently heading Nokia’s Learning Store. He blends hands-on engineering (fluent in Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Linux, SQL and NoSQL) with product strategy, P&L responsibility, and multi-country team leadership of up to 30 people. His background spans project, program and operations management across vendors, operators, enterprises and government, with notable experience launching digital media stores and personalized learning platforms. As a former founder (WeTalk) he brings entrepreneurial instincts for turning research-grade ideas—like speech-to-speech translation under constrained audio conditions—into deployable services. He is comfortable across the full lifecycle from technology surveys and architecture design to analytics, branding and support, and is familiar with Agile delivery. Based in Paris, he combines deep academic training in system control and robotics with pragmatic business development and partnership-building skills.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Baccalauréat at Gymnase Jean Sturm
Entrepreneurial Bootcamp, Entrepreneurial Bootcamp at ESCP Business School
PhD System Control, PhD System Control at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
MSc Industrial Robotics, MSc Industrial Robotics at Cranfield University
DUT, DUT at IUT Strasbourg
English, French, Japanese