CTO & strategic advisory
Tech strategy, architecture governance and technical leadership, without a full-time hire.
Freelance · Remote · Luxembourg & EU
Serious technology, built by teams that enjoy the work.
I'm Cédric, a freelance CTO and cloud architect with 25 years in software. I help European organisations with sovereign cloud, agentic software delivery and clear domain design, and I facilitate the workshops that get everyone on board.
Available for missions from [MONTH YEAR]
- EU Publications Office
- European Parliament
- BGL BNP Paribas
- Cargolux
- Banque de Luxembourg
- POST Luxembourg
- University of Luxembourg
Expertise
How I can help
From a few days of advisory to months embedded with your teams. Remote by default, on site when it matters.
Agile coaching & transformation
Agile transformation, process improvement, change management and leadership coaching that last beyond the engagement.
Cloud architecture
Target architectures, landing zones and Infrastructure as Code on Azure and AWS, with FinOps from day one.
Sovereign cloud
Feasibility, target architecture, data and workload migration, continuity and recovery for strategic assets.
Agentic software factory
Coding agents in your delivery process, with guardrails: specs, tests, review gates and cost tracking.
Domain-Driven Design & EventStorming
Explore the business with the people who know it and turn it into boundaries, models and event-driven architectures.
Facilitation & workshops
Serious games, story mapping, katas and visual thinking that get business, tech and leadership moving together.
Selected work
Recent missions
Migrating strategic assets to a European sovereign cloud
EU Publications Office · 2023 – now
Feasibility study, target architecture, refactoring, data and workload migration, high availability and recovery.
Defining a cloud target architecture
European Parliament · 2022
A target architecture across Azure and AWS, balancing security, governance and operations.
Moving an airline's IT to Azure
Cargolux · 2019 – 2023
Cloud architecture, Azure DevOps rollout, portfolio governance and coaching of IT Ops and delivery teams.
Serious about play
People learn best when they're allowed to play.
Architecture and AI adoption are people problems first. I design sessions where teams feel safe to explore, reflect and co-create, with serious games, facilitation, visual thinking and embodied practices.
Playful Learner Founder Workshops, talks and immersive experiences to rediscover curiosity and intrinsic motivation.
#play14 Co-founder · since 2014 A worldwide movement using play to learn, share and create, with thousands of participants.
- 25
- years in software, since 2001
- 7
- years as CTO and head of a software factory
- Certified
- Azure, AWS, Clever Cloud, DevOps, ITIL
- EN · FR
- working languages: French (native) and English (fluent)
Blog
Latest writing
Inside an agentic software factory
- agentic-ai
- software-factory
- delivery
- public-sector
How a small public-sector team organised coding agents, a backlog and a set of gates into a factory, and what went wrong along the way.
· 12 min read
Reading the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework
- sovereign-cloud
- architecture
- public-sector
How the European Commission turns cloud sovereignty into eight objectives, five assurance levels and a weighted score.
· 5 min read
EventStorming, from the big picture to code
- eventstorming
- ddd
- facilitation
Five short videos on the three levels of EventStorming and the notation that ties them together.
· 4 min read
Contact
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