Sébastien Gignoux Email & Phone Number

Kyoto, JP

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

• Fermat is a Paris-based early-stage hardware and software startup providing compute and storage accelerators based on FPGA technologies. Senior Technical Product Manager
• Led the product roadmap and strategic planning efforts. Identified multiple business opportunities through in-depth market research and industry trend monitoring.
• Presented technical concepts and product updates to senior executives, IT managers, and solution architects, simplifying complex ideas for diverse audiences.
• Translated complex customer requirements into detailed technical specifications. Collaborated closely with the software and hardware engineering teams to refine the product architecture, write detailed specifications.
• Led technical discussions and workshops with engineering teams.
• Developed multiple prototypes and proofs-of-concept in Python, Go, and HLS C++ in the field of financial risk, genomics, vector databases, and large language models (LLMs)

Paris Area, France

• Inqom is a SaaS solution that automates accounting tasks using AI technologies. In 2018, Inqom raised €6.9M from a Series B round and was acquired by Visma in 2022.Chief Product Officer
• Developed the product strategy and roadmap, wrote specifications, and delivered features. Cut in half the time accountants needed to keep their clients’ books up to date.
• Led the product team from zero to MVP, then to full product. Built up the team from the ground to include 2 Product Managers, 1 UX designer and 2 QA engineers as the company grew from 10 to 50 people and successfully.
• Managed the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Scrum with GitLab, overseeing all phases—from requirements gathering and design to development, backlog management, sprint planning, testing, deployment.
• Led the R&D team to ensure that the capabilities and performance of the proprietary AI system that extracted accounting data from pictures, based on BERT, matched customer needs. Managed and prioritized the AI-centric.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designer, engineering, marketing, customer success, and data analytics, to ensure the successful delivery of product initiatives.

Paris

• Stoic is a company based in Palo Alto that provides “big-data spreadsheet” solutions as SaaS and On-Premises. Stoic empowers end users to build complex business applications using an Excel-based user interface and AI.
• Conducted research with different clients to discover business cases and refine the roadmap.
• Wrote business cases and specifications of new features. Worked with engineering teams to ensure delivery using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Created wireframes and mock-ups to create user-centric UI/UX.Solution Architect
• Worked with teams in major investment banks and financial institutions to deploy Stoic’s solution
• Demonstrated the solution by implementing multiple use cases: PnL explained system for trading desks, Value at Risk and Risk Weighted Assets calculations with custom aggregation and netting, portfolio risk analysis and.

• Neediz is rethinking the flow of information within companies to provide operational solutions to all trades.Product Development
• Improved Neediz Activity email ingestion workflow
• Redesigned and automated business processes for businesses
• Mockup and prototype of financial dashboards
• Architected custom solution in Python/Django to run on Google App Engine
• Met with Japanese resellers and potential clients

Paris Area, France

• MeetMeOut helps people to connect and share activities with new friends
• Controlled the design of the user experience by pinpointing use cases and creating wireframes.
• Headed the implementation of the first version of the site in Ruby on Rails.
• Conducted the automation of the activities’ organization process.
• Participated extensively in the raising of €100K euros through a seed investment round.

Paris Area, France

• MockupGo is an online tools to accelerates the validation of web design via real-time annotations and business process automation.
• Employed Anthony Ulwick’s “Outcome-Driven Innovation” model to identify and rank innovation opportunities.
• Created all of the marketing materials for the company, such as pitches, videos, and the website.
• Conceptualized, designed, and developed the user experience.
• Achieved success in the delivery of the first version of the tool by outsourcing the development to a Ukrainian team.
• Facilitated interviews with customers, as well as conducting surveys.

• Encyclopædia Universalis is the most reputed French-language general encyclopedia.
• Coordinated the production of a new print version of the Encyclopædia Universalis (6,000 copies sold; 2 million euros budgeted) to produce 32,500 pages in 30 volumes.
• Executed the planning and organization of the operations of 40 employees and external service providers.
• Led the development of custom workflow tools and data delivery systems in Python.
• Supervised the expansion of the technology department from a small team of 4 people dependent on external providers into a 12-person service able to handle the technical needs of the company.
• Presider over the improvement efforts of the company website by using SEO, A/B testing, usability, and design improvement, leading to a tripling in the site’s revenues in 12 months.

• Drove the design and implementation of tools for production workflow and content management to index, produce, and typeset books.
• Directed the production of more than 32 books in close collaboration with the editorial team.

Conducted the implementation of a connector in Java for a travel website to the Amadeus reservation platform through web services.

• Functioned with a specialization in XML and Java.
• Demonstrated success by implementing new features in Java, improving performance and reliability, and developed a regression testing framework.
• Engaged and contributed in the conception of a graphical user interface used to visually represent data transformation of XML documents.

Reviewed chapters from Professional XML (2nd Edition) and Professional XML schemas.

Master Of Science (M.S.), M.S. In Computer Science At The École Des Mines De Nancy

Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Research Student In Artificial Intelligence

• In the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, designed and implemented a genetic programming system in C++ to evolve the behavior of robots.