Summary
Sylvain Rousseau is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 20+ years of hands-on software and management experience and a decade scaling teams from single digits to 100+ engineers across mobile, web, and data platforms. He has driven product and organizational transformations at Contentsquare—leading multiple product lines, data collection, and quality teams—and now leads technology strategy at Aria. A pragmatic coach who blends agile practices with deep technical expertise (from embedded real-time systems to cloud-native microservices and SDKs), he focuses on metrics-driven delivery, high availability, and ROI. He has a background in AI and cognitive engineering from Télécom Paris and a history of founding and shipping mobile and wearable products, bringing both startup grit and enterprise discipline. Notably, he pairs large-scale engineering management with a developer-first mindset, having led cross-functional JavaScript, mobile SDK, and testing automation teams that power privacy-conscious data collection.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering at Télécom Paris
Master’s Degree Computer, Master’s Degree Computer at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)