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Hugo Durand

Fullstack | Tech Lead / CTO | Software architect

€600/day
Paris, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Hugo

Summary
Fractional CTO and hands-on engineer helping startups build products that ship and scale. I bring 5 years of project leadership (20+ projects delivered to production), experience scaling an engineering team from 2 to 30, and the ability to work across the full stack when needed.

What I bring
Products that reach production. End-to-end delivery from architecture through deployment, front-end, back-end, data, CI/CD. I focus on solid foundations over shortcuts.
Technology decisions tied to business goals. As CTO, I defined the technology roadmap that supported a company's growth to over €10M in ARR. I make sure technical choices serve the business, not the other way around.
Engineering teams that deliver autonomously. I've structured an organization across five squads, put delivery practices in place (>5 deploys/day, MTTR <1 hour), and built the standards and processes that let a team run without constant oversight.

How I work
Depends on where you are:

No tech team yet: I define the architecture, build the first product, and help you hire.
Team in place, needs direction: I step in as fractional CTO or tech lead: roadmap, delivery, mentoring.
Need an extra pair of hands: I contribute directly on complex features, infrastructure, or unblocking delivery.

Tech Stack
Python, TypeScript (React, Next.js), PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps...
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • AlphaOmega:
    CTO
    PRIVATE EQUITY
    January 2021 - September 2025 (4 years and 7 months)
    Hesperange, Luxembourg
    • Strategic Alignment: Managed projects and resources to keep the technology team aligned with business needs in a fast-paced environment.
    • Stakeholder relation: Served as the primary technical contact for all stakeholders. Guided technology spending and vendor relations, prioritizing cost-effective solutions.
    • Platform Architecture: Designed the architecture for a distributed system that incorporated real-time data streaming and asynchronous task processing.
    • Team Development: Grew the IT department to 30 employees. Focused on building an engineering culture based on DevOps principles and continuous learning, which fostered a high-performing team.
    • Process & Delivery: Set up a CI/CD pipeline and GitOps workflow to streamline deployments. Developed data pipelines to manage tens of thousands of data processing jobs daily for automated report generation.
    Management d'équipe IT Architecture DevOps
  • Thalès: Palaiseau FR
    Deep Learning R&D Engineer Intern
    July 2020 - January 2021 (6 months)
    "Deep Learning for object detection in 3D point clouds". Researched and implemented deep learning techniques for object detection in 3D point clouds as part of an R&D project in autonomous systems.
  • XXII Group:
    Machine Learning Engineer Intern
    May 2019 - August 2019 (3 months)
    Suresnes, France
    Developed computer vision algorithms using machine learning and traditional methods to analyze real-time video streams.

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Education

  • MSc Computational & Software Techniques in Engineering:
    Cranfield University
    2020
    MSc
  • MSc General Engineering
    ESTIA
    2020
    MSc

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