Contact
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Rennes area, France -
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Desired context
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Product development -
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Permanent contract, €80k+ (90% or full time)
With over 15 years of experience in software engineering, I have been working in recent years in various product contexts as a founder or technical director. Passionate about entrepreneurship and engineering, I enjoy solving business problems while combining customer satisfaction with team fulfillment. On a daily basis, I make a point of keeping hands-on technical expertise to stay operationally sharp and lead with legitimacy. Outside of work, I enjoy cycling and playing the drums.
Our fit
You are a product company looking for:
- An experienced hands-on technical profile able to propose, challenge, decide, build and deliver a solution tailored to a need.
- A manager able to recruit, unite and lead a team while fostering individual fulfillment and continuous improvement.
- An entrepreneurial mindset with an understanding of business challenges, with whom to share the company's vision and strategy to keep teams and priorities aligned.
- Versatility and know-how to build from scratch and operate across a broad scope around the product and the company's needs.
- The ability to build or evolve the company around AI.
Professional background
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09/2025 – ... Seeking and creating opportunities- PoC of an AI-powered homework-help solution for elementary school pupils
- Discussions with a startup incubated at French Tech Rennes to explore potential grounds for joining forces
- Launch of the Ozika project (ozika.app), aiming to provide a platform to play and learn music through e-learning or in schools, monetized through commissions on content
- Conducted a market study with interviews around the challenges of inheritance settlement
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03/2023 – 09/2025 CTPO & Group CIOBRIQLY is a SaaS solution for turnkey renovation works, born from a diversification of CoCreata, a nationwide construction project management firm, under the startup Brain of Building. Hired by the founders to structure the whole product and technical approach, I built the team and the platform from scratch.
- Steering of the organization (OKR, DORA metrics...) and budget management (€600k/year)
- Recruitment and management of the team (1 PM, 1 designer/PO, 3 devs)
- Contribution to the CII innovation tax credit application
- Technical solution architecture and hands-on software development, mainly on industrialization and the database (business modeling and implementation)
- As group CIO (25 people), implementation of software and hardware IT resources: email, AI & cross-functional tools, communication websites, MDM-managed computers and phones...
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04/2022 – 01/2023 Head of EngineeringWithin the Carso group, ITGA is a major player in laboratory analysis of building pollutants, with a business software publishing activity. My mission was to turn around this then-struggling activity, but a mid-course change of ownership shifted the objectives.
- Management of the software publishing activity (3 products, 50 people, €2.7M/year), overseeing employees and contractors (20/80 ratio)
- On the main product (40 people, 5 feature teams), definition and steering of a major transformation of industrialization and methodology to cut release times, costs and risks (deployment: 3-5 days to 2h)
- Following the group's change of ownership, wind-down of the software publishing business with all its implications (study of resale scenarios, planning of service shutdown, customer notification, termination of contractors, redeployment of employees with HR...), then audit and takeover of the supervision of software development activities across the group and definition of human and technical restructuring scenarios
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01/2021 – 04/2022 Solutions architectA deeptech startup launched in partnership with Renault around the Probe product, which, from a 3D part, finds similar parts and predicts its metadata and manufacturing processes. There from the company's first day, I laid the technical foundations of the solution and the team's working methodology.
- Support of the founders in the negotiation of the Renault partnership contract, driving proposals and acting as guarantor of technical and contractual commitments
- Contribution to the JEI, CII and CIR applications (French innovation schemes)
- Architecture of the overall technical solution as a cloud and on-premise SaaS with a distributed backend enabling inference on hundreds of thousands of 3D parts in parallel
- Full development of the backend and the industrialization chain
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10/2019 – 04/2022 FounderJinto offered a mobile app and dedicated hardware for organizing and hosting events. As its founder, I carried the venture end to end: product, tech, funding, team and communication.
- Formation of the founding team (3 people)
- Sales prospecting and partner scouting
- Administrative management, fundraising (French Tech grant, Emergys and JEI schemes secured) and pitches (French Tech, Oscars d'Ille-et-Vilaine...)
- Design and manufacturing of a connected photo booth: sheet metal CAD, 3D printing of assembly parts, development of the embedded software
- Solution architecture, backend development, industrialization and run management
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03/2010 – 10/2019 Developer, software architect and industrialization expertWithin Orange Business (IT services), I grew over nearly 10 years across various technical roles, project responsibility and client relations, on internal projects, consulting and audit missions, as well as technical assistance.
- 15-month mission for Dassault/Sogitec to evolve the methodology and industrialization process of the Rafale fighter jet simulator (migration from ClearCase to TFS/Git, offline deployment with on-simulator debugging, training of the 200 people impacted...)
- Promotion to the software architect position through the career committee in 2014
- Developer and/or technical lead on multiple projects (Météo-France, Ouest-France, BPCE, Total, PFG, BUT...)
- Project estimation, pre-sales proposal writing and client presentations
- Training in project management and Orange's quality processes
- Co-administrator of the enterprise software forge (TFS) at national level
C#/.NETSQLC++JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptVue.jsTFSAzure DevOpsSQL ServerMySQLSonarQube - 2011 – 2014 C#/.NET developer
Self-employedFreelance 
Full remote Independent activity carried out alongside my position at Orange, which allowed me to grasp aspects beyond the purely technical.
- Business software development
- IT support services
- Sales prospecting, invoicing, contract drafting...
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Nicolas Courtin 
Ouest-France Education
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2008 – 2010 Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering track
IFSIC, University of Rennes 1 -
2006 – 2008 Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of Angers -
2004 – 2006 Two-year technical degree (BTS) in Management Computing, Application Developer option Lycée Sainte-Croix, Le Mans