I build software, and I ship it.

Two jobs, and what the first gives the second

I run an IT department, and have done for twenty years. It is an operational job: technology, budgets and teams, and above all turning a need into a solution. You listen to users and to management, you weigh the trade-offs, you decide what gets put in place, you deploy it, and you answer for what runs every day. That is where you learn what holds up over time, and what a vendor leaves out before you sign.

Building a product is the same act without the middleman. The products on this page are recent, written over the past months, and each starts from a need I heard someone put into words: instead of picking software and living with its limits, I write it. RoomStart is the clearest case, written when the tool everyone relied on stopped being maintained. What running a department brings here is knowing what a tool costs once deployed, not merely once demonstrated. The difference is that on these four I hold the whole chain myself: design, code, database, deployment, app store, support.

What about consulting?

Infrastructure audits, ERP selection, cloud migration, security reviews, framing a project: I have done all of it and I still do. The three formats are set out on the consulting page, which is in French.