Summary
Michael Baki is a seasoned founder and CTO with three decades of software industry experience spanning finance, wireless, and gaming, now leading Altwy from the Greater Montpellier area. He has built and scaled companies from scrappy startups to international teams, including founding Clan of the Cloud/XtraLife to deliver open-source, scalable backends and SDKs for game developers. Technically grounded in C++ and systems architecture, he combines hands-on engineering with executive roles—COO/CEO and Managing Director—across product, operations and R&D. His background in risk management software for investment banks and a Masters in Statistics Finance give him a rare blend of quantitative rigor and consumer-facing product instincts. Notably, he pioneered middleware and cross-platform mobile game tooling long before today’s app-store era, and has a track record of making complex backend services accessible to small studios. He is an entrepreneur who prefers shipping practical, secure systems that scale globally while keeping developer experience front and center.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Statistics Finance, M.Sc Statistics Finance at ENSAE Paris
English, French