Nicolas Durand
Chief Technology Officer at pass Culture
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Durand is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Toulouse with 25+ years in software and 11 years in senior engineering leadership, specializing in e‑commerce, mobile platforms and large-scale Agile transformations. He has led delivery and platform migrations for major luxury and retail brands (notably Dior/LVMH) and built feature-team organizations using SAFe and Spotify models to scale engineering across Product, Design and DevOps. Hands-on with mobile and web stacks—Swift, Kotlin, React, Angular, GraphQL, Java—and cloud CI/CD (Azure, GitHub, Bitrise), he blends architecture judgment with delivery rigor. Known as a servant leader, he drives quality, observability and production excellence while keeping teams empowered and customer-focused. He also brings deep experience in Salesforce Commerce Cloud migrations and headless e‑commerce architectures that reduced platform fragmentation across business units. Outside of headline roles, his career shows a consistent thread of applying developer craftsmanship and pragmatic innovation to bridge legacy systems and modern cloud-native practices.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Informatique, Ingénieur Informatique at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonGithub contributions (5)
MovalysMDK/mdk-android-widget
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:70 commits, 1 push in 8 months
MovalysMDK/mdk-ios-xcodeproj-cli
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
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