Summary
Yohan Piron is an Engineering Manager based in Paris with 12 years of experience leading Ruby on Rails teams and building backend systems for startups and scale-ups. He combines hands-on development—especially in Rails, GraphQL and background processing—with strategic leadership as a former CTO-as-a-service and Chief Technology & Product Officer who scaled a product from 200 to 3,000 tenants. Comfortable structuring distributed teams and remote policies, he has grown engineering groups from early hires to international teams while introducing product, design and data science practices. Yohan is pragmatic about roadmaps and recruitment, skilled in Shape Up and Agile ways of working, and also codes AI prototypes in Python, bringing a practical blend of product thinking and technical execution. Fluent in Japanese culture (Japan is his second home) and a self-declared curry enthusiast, he mixes technical rigor with global curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DULCO - Japanese (2 year degree. This diploma is internal to the school), Japanese language and civilization, DULCO - Japanese (2 year degree. This diploma is internal to the school), Japanese language and civilization at Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales
Master degree in Software Engineering, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Master degree in Software Engineering, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at ETNA, école d'alternance en informatique
Bachelor degree in Software development, Web development, Bachelor degree in Software development, Web development at AFPA
English, Japanese, French