Nicolas Besson
IoT Advisor - Expert & Director at Groupe SEB
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Besson is an IoT advisor and technical director with over 20 years of embedded-systems experience and a decade of focused IoT architecture work, blending hands-on firmware engineering with product and team leadership. He designs secure, scalable edge-to-cloud solutions—having led projects from smart lockers and connected EV charging stations to city-scale digital signage—while acting as a de facto CTO for startups to align mechanical, electronic and software choices. Comfortable with low-level firmware (BLE, Wi‑Fi, BSPs) and cloud stacks (MQTT, CoAP, Azure/AWS), he translates customer needs into pragmatic architectures and drives delivery. Known for knowledge sharing and training, he also co-wrote a Microsoft certification book early in his career and has international experience managing embedded teams in the US and Europe. Based in Lyon, he combines deep technical credibility with product ownership to turn complex IoT visions into operational products.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic High School Disploma Electronic, Electronic High School Disploma Electronic at Lycee Edouard Branly (Lyon 5)BAC+5 Embedded Systems, BAC+5 Embedded Systems at Polytech Nice SophiaDUT Network and Telecommunications, DUT Network and Telecommunications at Université Savoie Mont Blanc
English, French
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Github Skills (20)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NicolasBesson/LIFX-Sharp
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
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NicolasBesson/BlueRCCar
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 26 commits, 23 pushes in 4 months
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