Summary
CTO and full-stack engineer with 18 years across web platforms, DevOps, and system architecture. At CapStellar (a crypto/VASP) I lead a small engineering team and own architecture, infrastructure, security, and applied AI. I re-platformed a Node/Python monolith to Laravel microservices, shipped multi-exchange (Binance/Kraken) crypto products, and built an AI support agent that resolves about 1 in 3 tickets end-to-end. Specialist in Laravel, automation, and AI-driven operating leverage. Open to remote or relocation (Europe / UAE).
Experience
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) — CapStellar, Flow Corporation
July 2025 – Present · Remote / Mauritius
Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) — crypto portfolio automation.
- Re-architected the platform (V2 to V3) from a Node.js/Python monolith to a Laravel microservices architecture across multiple production environments
- Shipped core product end-to-end: automated multi-exchange (Binance + Kraken) index-rebalancing engine, zero-downtime Binance-to-Kraken migration, Earn/yield, and prepaid-wallet fee settlement
- Built a Claude-based AI support agent (RAG + secure tool integration) that resolves ~31% of tickets end-to-end with zero human touch, letting the support team absorb a 4x volume surge without added headcount
- Designed ~75 automation workflows and established continuous delivery (CI/CD, feature flags, event sourcing), shipping 200+ production merges per month with a three-person team
- Built a strategy backtesting simulator over historical market data — configurable indices, entry/exit rules and capital management, surfacing Sharpe, drawdown and trade-level analytics, with an AI natural-language strategy mode
- Built the data platform and reporting pipelines powering operational and revenue dashboards for company leadership
- Owned technical remediation of an external penetration test and CIS/ANSSI configuration audit; co-authored ICT operational-resilience governance under the EU DORA regulation as interim ICT security lead
- Sole owner of infrastructure: a ~20-server multi-provider fleet (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, IONOS) managed via Laravel Forge plus serverless workloads on Laravel Cloud, a multi-region API with automated failover (Cloudflare Load Balancer, warm standby, MySQL read-replica routing), and a Tailscale zero-trust network
- Built a single-pane-of-glass operations console monitoring the entire estate — server vitals, health checks, deploys, CI, uptime and security findings — with automated incident detection and Slack alerting
Tech: Laravel, API Platform, Python, Node.js, React, Claude/LLM, RAG, MCP, n8n, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Redis, Laravel Forge, Laravel Cloud, Docker, CI/CD, Cloudflare (LB/WAF/Tunnels), Tailscale, gRPC
Software Engineering Manager — Diadeis / SGSco
May 2024 – June 2025 · Remote · Software Engineering team / Global
- Rebuilt color profile system with Data Science team, creating industry-leading tool that strengthened company’s market position
- Developed client-facing search application integrating with Data Science team’s API
- Created automated file delivery solution saving US$45K/month globally
- Built Adobe Illustrator/InDesign extension for automated solutions and content injection
- Implemented critical automated quality check systems at group level
Tech: Laravel, Node.js, Vue.js, Inertia.js, .NET Core, JS/Adobe ExtendScript, Azure SQL, MariaDB, Redis, Postgres, MongoDB, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure App Service, Container Apps, Docker
Development Team Lead — Diadeis / SGSco
May 2021 – April 2024 · Remote · Data Science team / North America
Development Team Lead — Diadeis / SGSco
June 2019 – April 2021 · Mauritius · Operations / Mauritius site
Co-founder and Lead Developer — Sugarsplashes Ltd
September 2015 – May 2019 · Mauritius
- Led year-long project for governmental health agency, securing renewal for second year
- Partnered with Barclays Incubator startup to develop CX field proof-of-concept
- Client-facing role for pitches, proposals and estimates
Tech: Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, Git, Docker, Ubuntu
Education
Data Science BootCamp — Le Wagon (2023)
Finals project “Deep Dive” — marine debris detection using transfer learning with VGG19. Classified underwater images into 17 pollution categories with 60% accuracy. GitHub
Master (MSc) Computer Science — Université de la Réunion (2009)
Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies
Skills
| Domain | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Development | PHP: Laravel & ecosystem (Horizon, Nova, Passport, Scout) · Python (FastAPI) · JavaScript: React, Vue.js, Node.js, jQuery, Adobe ExtendScript · TailwindCSS, Bootstrap · REST/gRPC APIs, SPAs, background jobs · SQS, Beanstalk |
| AI & Automation | Claude / Anthropic API · RAG, vector search (PGVector) · Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools · n8n workflow automation · Agent evaluation, confidence scoring, human-in-the-loop |
| Data | MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, BigQuery, Redis |
| Data Science | Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow) · Machine Learning fundamentals · Data processing and analysis |
| Cloud & DevOps | Multi-provider VPS fleet: DigitalOcean, Hetzner, IONOS, AWS (Laravel Forge) · PaaS / serverless: Laravel Cloud, Cloudflare Pages · Azure (App Service, Container Apps, Functions, DevOps) · Multi-region HA: Cloudflare Load Balancing, warm standby, DB read-replica routing · Docker · CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), zero-downtime deploys · Terraform |
| Security & Domain | Application security, penetration-test remediation (OWASP, CIS/ANSSI) · Encryption & key management · Digital assets / crypto (CeFi), Fintech · VASP & regulatory transition (MiCA, DORA) |
| Systems | Linux fleet administration (Ubuntu, Debian) · Nginx, Apache, PHP-FPM, Octane/FrankenPHP · Zero-trust networking: Tailscale, Cloudflare Access, Tunnels, WAF · Monitoring & observability: health checks, heartbeats, uptime/cron monitoring, incident alerting · Microservices architecture |
Languages
- English — Fluent
- French — Native
- Spanish — Basic