Jean Friesewinkel
Independent Consultant Investor Advisor at Self-employed
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolJean Friesewinkel is an independent consultant, investor, and advisor with 13 years of experience bridging product engineering, strategy consulting, and entrepreneurship across energy transition, food, and AI/robotics. He combines hands-on full‑stack development (Swift, ObjC, NodeJS, Elixir Phoenix, React, Flutter) with senior product leadership, most recently as Chief Product Officer at TheFork and founder of multiple startups. Jean helps mission-driven companies iterate toward product‑market fit and scale technical products that align commercial strategy with sustainable impact. His background at Bain in TMT due diligence and engineering studies from CentraleSupélec and ULB give him a rare mix of quantitative rigor and product intuition. Based in Greater Paris, he invests time and capital in startups accelerating decarbonization and automation, often stepping into both technical and strategic roles. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves fluidly between code, roadmap, and investor conversations.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Centralien, Engineering/Industrial Management, Ingénieur Centralien, Engineering/Industrial Management at CentraleSupélecMSc in Electromechanical Engineering, Energy, Applied Mathematics, MSc in Electromechanical Engineering, Energy, Applied Mathematics at Université libre de BruxellesHigh-school degree, Latin-Mathematics, High-school degree, Latin-Mathematics at Lycée Emile Jacqmain
Github Skills (69)
hud10
uibarbuttonitem10
stripe-api9
swift9
carthage9
progress-hud9
ios9
objective-c9
uibutton9
svprogresshud9
tvos9
uilabel8
hex8
node-application8
in-app-purchase8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jeanfw/rubens
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 9 months
jeanfw/locomotive-example
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:23 commits in 10 days
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