Olivier Paroz
Enterprise Sales Director at Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC)
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Paroz is an Enterprise Sales Director with 13 years of focused experience selling and scaling complex SaaS and on-premise solutions across EMEA, now driving strategic G2K accounts at UiPath. He blends a technical background in IT architecture, integration and compliance with commercial leadership in product strategy, professional services and partner ecosystems, having led hyper-growth territories at Nextcloud. Olivier is a hands-on contributor to open-source projects (ownCloud/Nextcloud), with practical back-end and documentation commits that reflect his commitment to privacy, security and usable tooling. He pairs programme and risk management experience—from Swiss Army business continuity to telco DR programmes—with investor activity in Swiss tech startups, giving him a rare mix of operational, technical and early-stage investing insight. Based in Basel, he is known for a consultative, metrics-driven approach and for translating automation and AI into measurable workplace improvements.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree equivalent Economics Information and Communication Systems Management, Master degree equivalent Economics Information and Communication Systems Management at University of GenevaCertificate Entrepreneurship, Certificate Entrepreneurship at EPFL
English, French, German
Github Skills (15)
imagick10
php10
previews10
viewer10
image-processing10
sphinxsearch10
documentation10
sphinx10
owncloud9
tiff8
rest-api4
api-rest4
git4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
owncloud/core
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
:cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 49 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the core functionality of the ownCloud web server. Their commits centered around adding and modifying image preview support for various file types, including TIFF, and converting them to PNGs using the Imagick extension. They also made adjustments to LibreOffice integration for document previews and corrected minor code issues. Further contributions involved general improvements and bug fixes across core components.
owncloudweb-serverjstreeself-hostingjavascript
owncloud-archive/documentation
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
:blue_book: The ownCloud documentation and manual
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the documentation of the ownCloud project. Their commits focused on fixing typos, clarifying instructions for asset pipelining and development environments, and adding documentation for preview sizes and hooks. They made several updates to existing documentation files, enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the documentation.
usabilityblueowncloudmanualowncloud-documentation
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