Nicolas Clerc is a seasoned cloud and software architect with over a decade of experience modernizing applications and guiding cloud adoption across enterprises, currently leading Cloud & Apps Modernization at Cellenza. His background includes long tenure at Microsoft as a Cloud Solutions Architect and Regional Director, where he bridged partner ISVs and engineering teams to solve real-world customer challenges. Nicolas blends hands-on coding with architecture practice—he calls himself a "happy coder" and retains an engineer's curiosity from early software and robotics studies. Known for pragmatic, production-first designs, he has driven cloud migrations, ISV enablement, and innovative prototypes since the 2000s. Based in France, he pairs technical depth in Azure and .NET with a history of founding consultancies, making him as comfortable mentoring teams as delivering high-stakes solutions. An unusual facet: alongside cloud work he holds training certifications in diving and studied mobile robotics, reflecting a practical, exploratory mindset.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Control of Mobile Robots, Ingénierie mécatronique, robotique et automatisation, Control of Mobile Robots, Ingénierie mécatronique, robotique et automatisation at Georgia Institute of Technology
Ingénieur MIAGE, Computer science, Ingénieur MIAGE, Computer science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Initiateur Plongé Club - E1, Entraînement sportif / entraîneur, Initiateur Plongé Club - E1, Entraînement sportif / entraîneur at FFESSM
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