Antoine Sauvinet
CTO - VP Engineering
Expertise: Digital Transformation • Enterprise Architecture • Strategic Leadership • Team Management
Executive Summary
Technology leader with 20 years’ experience, specializing in digital transformation and scaling IT organizations.
Proven expertise in creating business value through technological innovation, developing high-performance teams and optimizing delivery processes. Solid track record in managing multi-million budgets and leading large-scale technical teams.
Technology Executive & Strategic Consultant - Available for strategic consulting missions in digital transformation and enterprise architecture.
Experiences
- Created and managed Tech Office (26 people): 9 architects, 10 developers, 6 UX/UI, 1 PMO
- Established Group Design Authority for enterprise architecture governance
- Built development platform strategy favoring MAKE over BUY approach
- Led complete redesign of Supply Chain ecosystem integrating 20+ specialized tools
- Managed €3M budget (€2.5M HR, €500K non-HR)
- Management and development of the digital team (10 people)
- Definition and execution of technical and digital strategy
- Managed a €1.5M budget (HR and non-HR)
- Key contribution to company valuation: successful exit of historical shareholders at 168% of target
- Management of a team of 7 senior architects
- Managed the complete migration to AWS
- Set up PHP to .Net training to consolidate tech stack and integrate Logic-Immo assets
- Managed recruitment and budget
- Management of a product team as Lead Dev (1 PO, 3 devs, 1 QA, close relationship with 2 business experts)
- Set up software testing strategy and training program
- Managed recruitment and budget for technical teams
- Audits, Training and development for clients: Société Générale, Younited, TUI
- Re-engineering of the payments code to build a PCI-DSS compliant platform
- Create a centralized regulatory gateway to ensure Betclic ability to be deployed in newly regulated countries
- Introduce automated testing practices at company scale (Unit, Integration, End to End Testing)
- Enhanced reliability of almost every sub-systems, helping to speed up feature teams' velocity
- Design and implementation of a store locator with geolocation feature
- Design and implementation of a new catalog UX, based on Amazon-like criteria browsing
- Design and implementation of an AJAX-supporting module to easily plug new dynamic services
- Asynchronous rendering of cross-selling engine's results: 50% reduction of page rendering time
- Development of ASP.NET web applications for enterprise clients
- Integration of e-marketing solutions and digital campaigns
- Collaboration with creative and technical teams
- Development of ASP.NET web applications for tracking and analytics
- Performance marketing solutions and ROI optimization
- Integration with advertising platforms and analytics tools
- Technical support and evolution of internal tools
- Development of .NET and web applications
- Participation in technical specifications and design
- Maintenance and evolution of existing applications
- Training on new technologies and frameworks
Skills
🎯 Leadership & Management
🏗️ Architecture & Design
☁️ Cloud & DevOps
🌐 Languages
Education
Associate Degree in Business Computing, Software engineering specialist (2005-2007)
3 years of University - Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry studies (2002-2005)
Highschool Degree - Sciences & engineering (2001)
🚀 Strategic Consulting & Collaboration
As an experienced technology executive, I'm available for strategic consulting missions in digital transformation and enterprise architecture.
Areas of expertise for consulting:
- 🎯 Digital transformation & IT strategy
- 🏗️ Enterprise architecture & cloud migration
- 👥 Team structuring & tech organization
- 📊 Technical audits & roadmaps
- 🎓 Training & mentoring of senior teams
Preferred approach: short and targeted missions, knowledge transfer, support for structural transformations.