Marc-elian Bégin
CEO & Co-founder at Xcert AI
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc-elian Bégin is a seasoned technology founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building edge-to-cloud platforms and teams, currently leading Xcert.ai and formerly co-founding and scaling SixSq and its Nuvla.io edge management marketplace. He blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—writing code, engaging partners and investors, and guiding boards—while keeping the big picture in focus between applied research and commercial productization. His career spans research-driven institutions like CERN, where he helped predict the shift from grid to cloud, to building operational cloud-neutral, hardware-agnostic SaaS products. A pragmatic agile coach and mountaineer by temperament, he balances iterative, careful progress with ambitious goals and celebrates small wins. Based in Geneva, he brings a multidisciplinary background from mechanical engineering to fine arts, which informs a creative yet disciplined approach to solving hard problems.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Sciences Pures et Appliquées, DEC, Sciences Pures et Appliquées at Cégep du Vieux MontréalB.Ing., Génie Mécanique, B.Ing., Génie Mécanique at Polytechnique MontréalDES, Fine arts high-school diploma, DES, Fine arts high-school diploma at F.A.C.E.
English, French
Github Skills (72)
docker-container10
semantic-ui-react10
browser9
rest9
rest-api9
tla9
docker9
restful9
clojurescript9
re-frame9
application-management9
azure8
user-interface8
devops8
data-management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SixSq/sixsq.github.io
May 2022 - May 2024
SixSq website
Contributions:2 PRs, 233 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
SixSq/nuvla-io.github.com
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Prototype dedicated Nuvla.io website
Contributions:1 PR, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
prototypededicated
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