I work alongside founders and engineering leads as the technical partner they don't have yet: choosing what and how to build it, keeping the codebase in a standard your business needs, so your company continues to grow.
Every technical decision routes through you, and the expensive ones keep waiting
A good part of the codebase was written by AI, and the app is getting out of control
You have some tough decisions to make and you need an impartial advice
The roadmap and the architecture stopped being aligned months ago.
You have a second technical opinion you trust, available before a decision hardens
You know exactly which parts of your code are safe to build on, and which to rewrite now
Your team regains full control over the product and its technical debt
The product finally reflects your business' aim
Hello there!
My name is Cyrille, I'm Canadian and French and I've been helping venture-backed startups, bootstrapped companies and medium-sized companies ship software, for the past 20 years.
My deep desire for learning and seeing my clients' businesses expand has led me all over the globe, partnering with founders, teaching and turning ideas into revenue-generating realities, in many industries including music, real estate, critical infrastructures, banking and more.
Three companies, and what moved while I was there.
From first code commits all the way to 23M€ in funding, through putting together and leading a team of 5 engineers, I have helped ColocHousing grow from a simple idea to a reference in the shared living space in Belgium.
colochousing.com ↗I have supported AgileNDT through their organic growth, from their first couple clients to a scalable SaaS and through many tough technical decisions, making it the leading worldwide reference in non-destructive testing reporting system today.
agilendt.com ↗I ran full-time Ruby on Rails bootcamps as lead teacher for many of the strong growth years of LeWagon, by travelling the world and providing students with a strong developer foundation, as well as raising teaching quality for franchise owners and the company as a whole.
lewagon.com ↗« My cofounder and I were non-technical and needed someone to help us bring our vision to life. Cyrille came on during the earliest days of Blueboard and built the whole v1 of the platform by himself. It enabled us to bring on our first 15 customers, and ultimately, to secure admission into the 500 Global accelerator. We wouldn't be here without Cyrille - beyond working together on the business side, we had fun along the way. I couldn't ask for anything more and would gladly work with Cyrille again in the future. »
Six ways in. Most engagements start with one and grow into two.
For startups and growing companies with no CTO in the room yet: architecture, hiring, build-or-buy, and the calls that are expensive to undo.
A plan that connects the roadmap to the system you'll need in eighteen months, and to the people who'll run it.
A read of what the model wrote before it becomes your foundation: what's safe to keep, what will bite, what to rewrite now.
A steady technical eye on scope, delivery and quality when the work is outsourced or the team is new.
Regular sessions with a developer who wants to get materially better, on their own code and their own deadlines.
Hands on the keyboard together, in your repository, on the feature that's actually blocking you.
A 30-minute call to get to know each other better and already gain some clarity.