Sylvain Pierre
Founder & General Manager - Japan at Le Wagon
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Pierre is a founder and operator who has built and scaled education and BPO ventures across Asia, relocating from France to co-found Officience in Vietnam and later launching Le Wagon in Japan. Over a decade he has grown teams and communities—scaling Officience to 300 people, launching Le Wagon Tokyo to train 1,000+ developers, securing government IT upskilling certification, and building a 9,000-strong local network with 150 hiring partners. He blends hands-on operational leadership with a passion for organizational innovation, a topic he presented in a TED talk and was even depicted in a French comic book. An investor and mentor with The Family, he regularly writes on innovation and globalization and balances his work with bouldering and parenting—bringing a curious, people-centered approach to scaling learning and tech ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée Henri PoincaréMaster of Science and Engineering, Supply Chain Management & Finance, Master of Science and Engineering, Supply Chain Management & Finance at Ecole centrale de Nantes
French, English, Vietnamese, German, Japanese
Github Skills (1)
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lewagonjapan/programming4everybody
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
https://info.lewagon.com/programming-for-everybody-tokyo
Contributions:119 commits, 120 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 7 months
tokyopythonlewagon
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