Nicolas Bourdin
Founder & CEO at Adalan
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNicolas Bourdin is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling data- and impact-driven ventures from Paris. He founded and leads Adalan, an AI and data consultancy that combines custom engineering (Python, ML, NLP, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse) with strategic transformation and compliance support, and concurrently runs ESG-focused firms Ogaia and Marceau Innovation. A longtime investor and operator, he co-founded Extia into a €70M engineering firm and serves as partner or board member across VC and impact organizations including Partech, 50 Partners Impact, BackToEarth and Veltys. Nicolas blends commercial rigor from early finance roles with executive coaching training, enabling him to translate technical complexity into leadership-ready strategies. He favors solutions that intersect data science, sustainability and product-market fit, often building teams that turn regulatory and environmental constraints into competitive advantage. Based in Île-de-France, he is known for pairing entrepreneurial risk-taking with systems-level thinking that anticipates both market and societal shifts.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree General Management & Strategy, Master's degree General Management & Strategy at ESCP Business SchoolEvidence Based Coaching for Organization Leadership Certificate Executive Coaching, Evidence Based Coaching for Organization Leadership Certificate Executive Coaching at Fielding Graduate University
English, French, German, Chinese
Github Skills (139)
authentication10
sms10
hasura10
riverpod10
rest-api10
backend10
firebase10
haskell10
graphql-api10
magic-link10
api10
trigger10
jwt10
access-control10
sql-server10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nbourdin/Rotoscope-Qt
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 issues in 5 years 2 months
nbourdin/nbourdin.github.io
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
A web application to build your blog on GitHub
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 3 months
reactweb-application
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