Paul Guyot
Chief Product & Technology Officer at Smart Impulse
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolPaul Guyot is a seasoned Chief Product & Technology Officer with 22 years of experience building data-driven products and leading distributed engineering teams across Europe, the US and Australia. He blends deep technical roots—PhD-level AI research and hands-on low-level work on projects like AtomVM’s Erlang VM—with strategic leadership roles from CEO to CTO, driving growth, productization and large commercial deals. Paul has a strong track record in data science and revenue-management software, having created data practices and introduced engineering quality cultures (Docker, Cypress) in enterprise settings. His open-source contributions span language grammars, SQL tooling and package manager internals, reflecting both backend and database expertise that informs product decisions. Based in Paris, he’s comfortable interfacing with boards and investors while still rolling up his sleeves on C and compiler-level fixes. That combination of academic rigor, product leadership and low-level coding makes him particularly effective at turning complex research-grade tech into scalable commercial solutions.
22 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée Henri IVMaster Philosophy of Science, Master Philosophy of Science at University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonnePhD Artificial Intelligence, PhD Artificial Intelligence at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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erlang
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Github Skills (32)
dependency-management10
develop10
erlang10
tsql10
command-line-interface10
c1110
grammar10
c1710
grammars10
lint10
sql10
database-design10
vms10
antlr10
linter10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
macports/macports-base
Feb 2004 - May 2009
The MacPorts command-line client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:351 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul made several code changes to the MacPorts command-line client, addressing bug fixes, performance optimizations, and functional enhancements within the dependency management system. These modifications included improvements to dependency graph building and walking, modifications to the source code related to dependencies, and the implementation of a new command to check file creation. Additionally, they refactored checksum-related code.
macosxpackage-managermacportscommand-linemacos
atomvm/AtomVM
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Tiny Erlang VM
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:505 reviews, 64 commits, 395 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the AtomVM project by implementing and fixing functionality within the core Erlang VM. Their work includes bug fixes for the `gen_server` and `gen_statem` modules, along with improvements to the system time functions. Additionally, the user added support for various bitstring operations and fixed issues related to the handling of integers and floating-point numbers, improving the overall stability and correctness of the VM. Furthermore, the user added support for new opcodes, including those for binary operations and record updates, while working extensively with low-level C code.
gleamerlangstm32erlang-vmtiny
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