Nicolas Cynober
VP Product - WordPress Ecosystem at group.one
Vannes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Cynober is a product and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building consumer and SaaS products that scale, most notably co-founding and growing Pearltrees into a 10M-user knowledge platform and a dominant EdTech SaaS reaching 1.5M users in French secondary schools. He combines hands-on technical roots (from senior software engineer and QA roles) with strategic product leadership, driving innovations like granular collaborative textbooks and automated textbook conversion that captured 10% of the French e-book market. Self-financed and metrics-driven, he has led cross-functional teams in product development, sales and customer success to achieve negative churn and multi-million euro ARR. Now VP Product for the WordPress ecosystem at group.one, he blends cloud, AI and consumer UX expertise to disrupt digitized education and publishing. Colleagues describe him as a bottom-up manager who empowers autonomous teams while relentlessly optimizing usage and operational reliability.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Mastère, Innovate & Entreprenership, Mastère, Innovate & Entreprenership at ESCP Business SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Web technologies, Master, Master of Science - MS, Web technologies, Master at Oxford Brookes UniversityEngineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at SUPINFO
Github Skills (10)
wordpress-plugin6
wordpress4
minification4
caching4
lazyload4
optimization3
performance-optimization2
database-cleaner2
torrent1
french1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
markfussell/s3annex
Aug 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:5 commits in 4 months
pearltrees/colorize-filter
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:2 commits in 25 days
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