Loic Ortola
Chief Technology Officer at Takima
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolLoic Ortola is a hands-on technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performance distributed systems, particularly in geospatial platforms. As long-time technology lead and CTO at Jawg, he shaped the backend, DevOps, and service architecture for a production-grade maps API using a polyglot stack (Node.js, Java/Akka, Go, Rust, PostGIS, Cassandra) and operational tooling like Docker, Ansible and Grafana. He co-founded and leads multiple ventures (Jawg, Frog Connexion, Innebord) while coaching teams, teaching at engineering schools, and speaking at major dev conferences. Known for pragmatically bridging product, culture and architecture, he advises deep-tech startups on roadmap, scaling and CPTO-as-a-Service engagements. Based in Paris, he combines enterprise-grade operational experience with a trainer’s mindset, regularly mentoring engineers into public speakers and technical leaders. An early career background in systems administration and mobile/Android development gives him a broad, practical perspective on reliability and performance trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
CPE Lyon
English, French, German
Github Skills (200)
esp3210
async10
java10
discovery10
jenkins-ci10
asynchronous10
3d-printing10
ssdp10
arduino10
routers9
firebase-authentication9
high-performance9
firebase-admin9
handlers9
web-application9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
resourcepool/ssdp-client
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
The most lightweight asynchronous Java SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) Client
Contributions:4 reviews, 66 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 6 months
ssdpservice-discovery-protocolasynchronousandroiddiscovery
e-biz/parlez-vous-git
Apr 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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