Summary
Jérôme Godard is an experienced IT manager and software leader with 11 years in senior roles driving digital transformation at Michelin and a longer background in software engineering and consulting. He currently leads IT for Digital Manufacturing, building platforms for Industry 4.0, advanced analytics, computer vision and data-driven process control across global plants. Previously he architected customer-facing IoT and data solutions, modernized software engineering platforms (DevOps, Kubernetes, Azure) and championed SRE, UX and lean exploration methods. He combines hands-on technical depth—from Java, Eclipse RCP and BI to cloud-native architectures—with people and vendor management across Europe, North America and Asia. Founder of a tech conference in Auvergne and owner of an IT consultancy, he blends entrepreneurial drive with enterprise-scale delivery. Notably, he steers cross-disciplinary teams to turn industrial data experiments into scalable, secure operational systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in engineering (BAC+5) Computer Science, Master's degree in engineering (BAC+5) Computer Science at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.
Master's degree Computer Sciences Management, Master's degree Computer Sciences Management at Staffordshire University