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Resume

Christophe Cholot

Summary

4x founder, former CTO, and Solutions Architect with 15+ years building SaaS, e-commerce, e-learning, and enterprise platforms from zero to production. I have sold and delivered software for enterprise clients, led engineering teams, and turned ambiguous business problems into shipped products. I currently work on the architecture of a French government platform serving 1M+ citizens.

Experience

Solutions Architect

Onepoint - Agence Nationale de l'Habitation, Paris | November 2024 - Present

  • Drive architecture and technical evolution for a critical public-sector platform.
  • Balance reliability, security, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability.
  • Translate operational and policy requirements into pragmatic technical roadmaps.

Technical Leader

Onepoint - Agence Nationale de l'Habitation, Paris | August 2023 - Present

  • Helped untangle legacy issues on a French government platform now serving 1M+ citizens.
  • Led development practices around architecture, code quality, and delivery.
  • Prepared the platform for long-term operation in France's Health Data Hosting environment.

Co-Founder & CTO

Remixt, Paris | September 2019 - December 2021

  • Co-founded and built a SaaS e-learning platform for diversity and inclusion.
  • Scaled the platform to 100,000 trained users within two years.
  • Owned technical delivery and client success for Natixis, RATP, OpenClassrooms, Assystem, and Credit Mutuel.

Co-Founder & CTO

Swivells, Paris | February 2017 - January 2023

  • Built a custom e-commerce platform that processed more than EUR 1M in revenue.
  • Sold to customers in 32 countries before migrating the business to Shopify.
  • Owned storefront engineering, Stripe payments, SEO, and analytics.

CTO / R&D

The Social Client / Sitel Group, Paris | December 2014 - January 2017

  • Directed R&D and technical strategy after the Sociabliz acquisition.
  • Managed a five-developer engineering team and supported a client portfolio worth around EUR 2M.
  • Delivered digital CRM and social customer-experience products for SFR, Wonderbox, Neuf, and MIPIM.

Co-Founder & CTO

Sociabliz, Paris | January 2011 - November 2014

  • Co-founded and scaled a social API and CRM technology agency from 0 to EUR 1.2M annual revenue.
  • Led a team of five developers building custom social applications and campaign platforms.
  • Transitioned technology, products, and team through the acquisition by Acticall / Sitel Group, now Foundever.

Skills

Founder execution
Zero-to-one product building, M&A, enterprise sales, team leadership, and P&L ownership.
Solutions and delivery
Solutions architecture, enterprise delivery, technical roadmaps, C-level stakeholders, client co-building, and ROI framing.
Platforms and systems
SaaS, e-commerce, API architecture, workflow automation, Stripe, SSO, GDPR, CRM systems, and Health Data Hosting.
Core technologies
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Cloudflare, Scalingo, Git, CI/CD, and Jenkins.
Applied AI
LLM-based application architecture, MCP, OpenRouter, enterprise AI use-case discovery, and data-sensitive deployment.

Additional Projects

Signups

Founder | 2023 - 2025

Built an all-in-one B2B SaaS platform for dance schools, workshops, and festival organizers, unifying registrations, ticketing, payments, CRM, and accounting.

Jazzy Feet

Founder | 2023 - 2025

Built and ran a Paris swing dance school from zero to 1,000+ students and 15 teachers.

Afrolab

Strategic Advisor | 2023 - 2025

Advised Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through venture-focused mentorship, business education, and growth strategy support.

Education

  • Universite Paris-Pantheon-Assas - M2, Management of New Technologies, 2009
  • INSIA - Engineering curriculum, Software Development specialization, 2005 - 2008