Paul Vidal
CTO & Co-founder at ARO
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Vidal is a French software engineer-turned-founder with a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and now serves as CTO and co-founder of Collective, an AI-first, commission-free marketplace for freelancers. He led the company through an $8M seed raise and scaled the product to 50,000+ freelancers while shipping an AI-powered recruiter search and collaborative invoicing tools. Previously at Datadog he architected large-scale logging and event platforms, bridging SRE and R&D work to improve operational resilience and developer productivity. An active angel investor across fintech, AI and developer tools, he blends hands-on TypeScript/GraphQL engineering with product-led growth and startup studio experience. Outside work he’s a CrossFit addict and eternal optimist—traits that mirror his focus on high-velocity execution and team resilience.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de LondresEngineer’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College London
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (95)
highlight10
spotify-api10
telegram-bot10
cli10
sql-server10
apple-music10
nodejs10
mongodb10
artwork10
itunes10
javascript9
sql-query9
database9
angular9
music9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paulvidal/Highlights
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Messenger bot fetching the latest football highlight videos for your team and sending them straight to you
Contributions:442 commits, 581 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 8 months
telegram-bothighlightmessenger-botfootballvideos
paulvidal/shared-spotify
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
A cool way to find common songs among friends and create playlists out of those common songs on Spotify and Apple music
Contributions:322 commits, 94 PRs, 155 pushes in 6 months
artworksongsspotifyitunesspotify-web-api
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