Pierre Michard is a Staff Engineer based in Paris with over 15 years of engineering experience spanning embedded systems, web backends and blockchain, and a decade of focused professional experience in web and crypto projects. He has progressed from low-level firmware and telecom integration to leading backend teams and serving as CTO, consistently applying test-driven development, CI/CD and platform best practices. Pierre built and led backend efforts using Ruby on Rails, designed Tezos smart contracts, and shipped full-stack products including mobile clients and Kubernetes deployments. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and technical leadership, he has delivered across industries—energy, automotive, IoT and fintech—bringing a pragmatic systems mindset from embedded constraints to cloud-native services. An interesting thread through his career is moving innovations from device firmware (Parrot) to blockchain-enabled web platforms, showing a rare blend of hardware-rooted rigor and modern web3 engineering.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle, Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle at IUT de Rennes
Diplôme d'ingénieur Electronique et Informatique Industrielle, Diplôme d'ingénieur Electronique et Informatique Industrielle at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
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