Summary
Samuel Bernard is a founder and CTO with 11+ years blending research-grade distributed systems expertise and hands-on DevOps to build scalable, fault-tolerant data platforms and ML products from Paris. He moved from a PhD in distributed algorithms to senior engineering roles at Criteo and S4M, then into startup CTO and advisory positions, uniquely bridging formal algorithmic thinking with pragmatic infrastructure automation (Chef, Kafka, Spark). Samuel co-founded Make.org and now leads NuMind, focusing on practical machine learning tooling that makes AI accessible. He is comfortable across the stack—Java, Ruby, functional languages and systems administration—and has implemented low-latency total order broadcast prototypes in real deployments. Known for turning theoretical work into production-ready systems, he combines academic rigor with a founder’s appetite for shipping impactful products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
CPGE MP, CPGE MP at Lycée Marcelin Berthelot
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at École normale supérieure de Lyon
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Pierre and Marie Curie University
French, English