Summary
Mélanie Bats is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 14 years of experience specializing in model-driven engineering, Java and Eclipse-based tooling. She rose through hands-on roles at Continental and Obeo, evolving from Eclipse modeling consultant and UML Designer tech lead to steering technical strategy as CTO. Her deep expertise spans Eclipse RCP, Ecore, Acceleo, ATL and model-to-text/model-to-model transformations, applied to industrial domains like automotive and aerospace. Based in Toulouse, she combines product-level leadership with continued commit-level involvement in Eclipse projects (Sirius & EEF), signaling a rare blend of architecture and implementation fluency. Colleagues rely on her ability to turn complex modeling requirements into practical generation and configuration toolchains that integrate with legacy systems. Her background in industrial R&D and long-term open-source stewardship give her a pragmatic, standards-minded approach to tooling and developer ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur, Informatique - Génie Logiciel, Ingénieur, Informatique - Génie Logiciel at Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Informatique, Informatique at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
French, English, Spanish, German