Summary
Pascal Pons is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and products across advertising, geospatial, and public-sector domains. As Co-founder & CTO of m19 he focuses on automating and optimizing Amazon advertising for sellers and brands, pairing product sensibility with technical execution. Previously at Criteo he progressed from lead developer to Principal Engineering Program Manager, orchestrating roadmaps and cross-functional delivery for teams of up to ~60 engineers in high-throughput ML and recommendation systems. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Science and advanced degrees from French grandes écoles—with hands-on software leadership, bridging research-quality thinking and production-grade systems. Comfortable leading large programs and small startups alike, Pascal brings a rare mix of program management rigor, ML-informed product insight, and experience managing multi-million-euro outsourced portfolios. Based in Ottawa, he’s equally fluent in coordinating distributed R&D and bootstrapping growth-stage infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, Computer Science, BS, MS, Computer Science at Ecole normale supérieure
MS, Corps des Mines (former Corps des Télécommunications), MS, Corps des Mines (former Corps des Télécommunications) at Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII) / University Paris VII
French, English, Spanish