How far would you let artificial intelligence decide?
Ahead of the Popcorn IA event on July 7 in La Roche-sur-Yon, François-Guillaume Ribreau is featured among the local AI experts presenting solutions built in the region.
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I have been building tech companies for 26 years. Alongside, I advise CEOs, CTOs and CIOs.

26 years of experience, 12 SaaS built, 50+ companies advised, Top 900 global contributors on Github.
12 SaaS launched. Image-Charts (80M req/month, clients Dropbox, Microsoft, Spotify), Cloud-IAM, Hook0, Natalia, France Nuage, Netir, Recapro.
360° technical audits, C-level advisory, architecture and digital transformation. Founded the NoBullshit Engineers collective (10+ freelancers, €1.2M revenue year 1). Clients: ANTAI, Klaxoon, Ouest-France, Netwo, Guest Suite, Arkéa Capital, MAIF Avenir.
50+ conferences (Devoxx, BreizhCamp, MixIT, Web2Day). Book "NoBullshit Tech-Lead" (5 years of writing).
Lecturer at EPSI on software architecture and NoSQL. English: TOEIC 950/990.
Angel investor (Premier Étage, Le Palace, Maison Bagarre). Founder of SaaS Camp. Member of CJD (Centre des jeunes dirigeants d'entreprise) since 2022.
Top 900 Github contributors (2022). Redis Weekly (acquired by Redis Labs). Bug bounty CNIL, Miro.
Network of business leaders committed to a human-centered economy.
Network of business leaders committed to a human-centered economy.
360° infrastructure audit, software and system architecture, scaling.
Technical audits for Arkéa Capital investments.
Technical audits for MAIF Avenir investments.
Teaching JavaScript, NoSQL, Software Architecture, Design Patterns.
Advisory, JavaScript industrialization.
360° technical auditor, C-level advisory, architecture and digital transformation
360° infrastructure audit, software and system architecture, scaling.
Technical audits for Arkéa Capital investments.
Technical audits for MAIF Avenir investments.
Teaching JavaScript, NoSQL, Software Architecture, Design Patterns.
Advisory, JavaScript industrialization.
360° technical auditor, C-level advisory, architecture and digital transformation
Prospecting SaaS
Born at SaaS Camp Nov 2024
360° audit, target IT architecture design, eXtreme Lean management.
Migration from Drupal to GCP/Cloud Functions/TypeScript platform, REST and GraphQL APIs.
4-day time-to-market
Connects PKM with Zapier - First customer on day 9
360° audit covering ~120 people, organization, architecture, infrastructure.
3-day technical audit.
8-day technical audit.
Technical audit.
Technical audit, architecture advisory.
CTO as a Service, eXtreme Programming, Lean Software Development.
Led the technological transformation of France's largest daily newspaper
Technical advisory and team upskilling.
Team reorganization, platform v3 architecture, eXtreme Lean.
Architecture redesign and technical advisory.
Distributed high-quality video generation
Large-scale video generation platform
Technical audits for investment due diligence.
Architect community leadership, group technical strategy, management of ~10 people.
Contributed to the leading real-time customer engagement platform.
Email SaaS
Email marketing service
Technical review of books: Lo-Dash Essentials, Getting Started with Grunt, MEAN Web Development.
Redis GUI - 15,000+ users
Redis administration SaaS, maintained for 8 years
Teaching JavaScript, RIA, REST APIs.
Social media monitoring
Sold to iAdvize for 700,000 EUR
Prospecting SaaS
Born at SaaS Camp Nov 2024
360° audit, target IT architecture design, eXtreme Lean management.
Migration from Drupal to GCP/Cloud Functions/TypeScript platform, REST and GraphQL APIs.
4-day time-to-market
Connects PKM with Zapier - First customer on day 9
360° audit covering ~120 people, organization, architecture, infrastructure.
3-day technical audit.
8-day technical audit.
Technical audit.
Technical audit, architecture advisory.
CTO as a Service, eXtreme Programming, Lean Software Development.
Led the technological transformation of France's largest daily newspaper
Technical advisory and team upskilling.
Team reorganization, platform v3 architecture, eXtreme Lean.
Architecture redesign and technical advisory.
Distributed high-quality video generation
Large-scale video generation platform
Technical audits for investment due diligence.
Architect community leadership, group technical strategy, management of ~10 people.
Contributed to the leading real-time customer engagement platform.
Email SaaS
Email marketing service
Technical review of books: Lo-Dash Essentials, Getting Started with Grunt, MEAN Web Development.
Redis GUI - 15,000+ users
Redis administration SaaS, maintained for 8 years
Teaching JavaScript, RIA, REST APIs.
Social media monitoring
Sold to iAdvize for 700,000 EUR
Ahead of the Popcorn IA event on July 7 in La Roche-sur-Yon, François-Guillaume Ribreau is featured among the local AI experts presenting solutions built in the region.
Recapro, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau, launches a sovereign AI solution hosted in France to secure the transcription and synthesis of strategic business reports.
Report on the SaaS Camp in Vendée: an intensive week to create a profitable and resilient SaaS business model, initiated by François-Guillaume Ribreau.
Natalia, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau, uses AI to transform business administrative management with a voice and email assistant available 24/7.
5 companies created (Netir, France Nuage, Natalia, Leadspy, Nami), 3 with customers signed during the event.
Cloud-IAM, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau, offers a managed Keycloak service on European cloud. Profitable from month 6 with +150% MRR growth.
Cloud-IAM is featured as the reference European solution for identity and access management, as part of the Euclidia initiative for cloud sovereignty.
Interview with François-Guillaume Ribreau on Cloud-IAM's vision: ensuring customers have total control over their identity data on European cloud.
François-Guillaume Ribreau presents the 60-point technical inspection of a web API at the Paris Web 2019 conference.
How François-Guillaume Ribreau turned Google Image Charts' deprecation into an opportunity by creating Image-Charts, a SaaS generating 80 million charts per month.
Redis Labs acquires Redis Weekly, the weekly newsletter created by François-Guillaume Ribreau, after 184 issues and thousands of subscribers.
Interview with François-Guillaume Ribreau at the Reactive 2015 conference, on React, Redux, CRDT, and reactive architectures.
iAdvize, a leader in online customer relations, acquires the Nantes-based startup Bringr to enrich its customer engagement platform with real-time social media analysis.
The acquisition of Bringr by iAdvize marks a milestone in building a 360° customer engagement solution, integrating social media monitoring.
The Nantes-based startup iAdvize strengthens its social media insights with the acquisition of Bringr, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau.
iAdvize becomes a global real-time customer engagement platform with the acquisition of Bringr, a social media monitoring specialist.
Bringr enables real-time monitoring and analysis of social media conversations, with a simple interface and customizable alerts.
Ahead of the Popcorn IA event on July 7 in La Roche-sur-Yon, François-Guillaume Ribreau is featured among the local AI experts presenting solutions built in the region.
Recapro, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau, launches a sovereign AI solution hosted in France to secure the transcription and synthesis of strategic business reports.
Report on the SaaS Camp in Vendée: an intensive week to create a profitable and resilient SaaS business model, initiated by François-Guillaume Ribreau.
Natalia, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau, uses AI to transform business administrative management with a voice and email assistant available 24/7.
5 companies created (Netir, France Nuage, Natalia, Leadspy, Nami), 3 with customers signed during the event.
Cloud-IAM, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau, offers a managed Keycloak service on European cloud. Profitable from month 6 with +150% MRR growth.
Cloud-IAM is featured as the reference European solution for identity and access management, as part of the Euclidia initiative for cloud sovereignty.
Interview with François-Guillaume Ribreau on Cloud-IAM's vision: ensuring customers have total control over their identity data on European cloud.
François-Guillaume Ribreau presents the 60-point technical inspection of a web API at the Paris Web 2019 conference.
How François-Guillaume Ribreau turned Google Image Charts' deprecation into an opportunity by creating Image-Charts, a SaaS generating 80 million charts per month.
Redis Labs acquires Redis Weekly, the weekly newsletter created by François-Guillaume Ribreau, after 184 issues and thousands of subscribers.
Interview with François-Guillaume Ribreau at the Reactive 2015 conference, on React, Redux, CRDT, and reactive architectures.
iAdvize, a leader in online customer relations, acquires the Nantes-based startup Bringr to enrich its customer engagement platform with real-time social media analysis.
The acquisition of Bringr by iAdvize marks a milestone in building a 360° customer engagement solution, integrating social media monitoring.
The Nantes-based startup iAdvize strengthens its social media insights with the acquisition of Bringr, co-founded by François-Guillaume Ribreau.
iAdvize becomes a global real-time customer engagement platform with the acquisition of Bringr, a social media monitoring specialist.
Bringr enables real-time monitoring and analysis of social media conversations, with a simple interface and customizable alerts.
François-Guillaume gave me advice on migrating a SaaS architecture to On Premise, drawing on all his experience. In just half a day, we found the simplest and most effective solution possible, with a roadmap of best practices to implement over time. I highly recommend him.
François-Guillaume was extremely helpful in clarifying our SaaS strategy from both a technical and product standpoint. The audit gave us a clear and actionable assessment. François-Guillaume's expertise is inspiring, and his ability to simplify complex issues, understand the stakes, and his genuine care make his audits a truly enriching experience.
I especially recommend François-Guillaume's support for your tech projects, particularly in the SaaS space. He guided us on technical choices and also advised us on how to organize ourselves to deliver value efficiently and continuously.
François-Guillaume is undoubtedly passionate. His skills and vision made him an ambassador of the IT department within the Sipa/Ouest-France group. Coming from a startup, he showed resilience in a legacy-heavy environment and brought Ouest-France into a new technological dimension.
François-Guillaume delivered insightful & highly valuable solutions at an incredible pace. He was a true enabler adopting multiple stances: observer, thinker, advocate, architect & manager. His propositions are always directly actionable & impactful.
I had the pleasure of working with François-Guillaume during the audit at Guest Suite. He's a true professional with outstanding technical and interpersonal skills. His ability to absorb and process information is impressive. I recommend him 100%.
François-Guillaume quickly understood and internalized our challenges. His advice and recommendations are relevant, unambiguous, and actionable.
François-Guillaume gave me advice on migrating a SaaS architecture to On Premise, drawing on all his experience. In just half a day, we found the simplest and most effective solution possible, with a roadmap of best practices to implement over time. I highly recommend him.
François-Guillaume was extremely helpful in clarifying our SaaS strategy from both a technical and product standpoint. The audit gave us a clear and actionable assessment. François-Guillaume's expertise is inspiring, and his ability to simplify complex issues, understand the stakes, and his genuine care make his audits a truly enriching experience.
I especially recommend François-Guillaume's support for your tech projects, particularly in the SaaS space. He guided us on technical choices and also advised us on how to organize ourselves to deliver value efficiently and continuously.
François-Guillaume is undoubtedly passionate. His skills and vision made him an ambassador of the IT department within the Sipa/Ouest-France group. Coming from a startup, he showed resilience in a legacy-heavy environment and brought Ouest-France into a new technological dimension.
François-Guillaume delivered insightful & highly valuable solutions at an incredible pace. He was a true enabler adopting multiple stances: observer, thinker, advocate, architect & manager. His propositions are always directly actionable & impactful.
I had the pleasure of working with François-Guillaume during the audit at Guest Suite. He's a true professional with outstanding technical and interpersonal skills. His ability to absorb and process information is impressive. I recommend him 100%.
François-Guillaume quickly understood and internalized our challenges. His advice and recommendations are relevant, unambiguous, and actionable.
François-Guillaume supported us with exceptional professionalism in our architecture redesign project. His deep expertise, combined with excellent teaching skills, enabled him to deliver tailored solutions. After a day with François-Guillaume, you have clear solutions and vision, and on top of that, you feel a bit smarter. Bravo!
François-Guillaume provided a comprehensive set of solutions while also adapting to new issues as they arose. His breadth of skills and mastery of end-to-end project architecture were particularly appreciated. Thanks to his contribution, the entire development team was able to level up.
I was fortunate to have François-Guillaume on my team for 18 months. His vision, leadership, dynamism, and energy went far beyond the expected scope. His urbanized vision of the digital platform was validated by Xebia's CTO.
With strong technical, organizational, and entrepreneurial skills, François-Guillaume quickly grasped our complex challenges and delivered a precise assessment along with invaluable recommendations.
One of the best API talks ever, both in substance (the doctrine, the fundamentals) and in form: direct, bold, and sustained. Bravo.
Best talk of the entire #web2day #blowmymind
Francois-Guillaume Ribreau is one on the best JavaScript developer I have ever met. We hired him to rewrite from scratch one of our core component at iadvize and he did an exceptional job.
François-Guillaume supported us with exceptional professionalism in our architecture redesign project. His deep expertise, combined with excellent teaching skills, enabled him to deliver tailored solutions. After a day with François-Guillaume, you have clear solutions and vision, and on top of that, you feel a bit smarter. Bravo!
François-Guillaume provided a comprehensive set of solutions while also adapting to new issues as they arose. His breadth of skills and mastery of end-to-end project architecture were particularly appreciated. Thanks to his contribution, the entire development team was able to level up.
I was fortunate to have François-Guillaume on my team for 18 months. His vision, leadership, dynamism, and energy went far beyond the expected scope. His urbanized vision of the digital platform was validated by Xebia's CTO.
With strong technical, organizational, and entrepreneurial skills, François-Guillaume quickly grasped our complex challenges and delivered a precise assessment along with invaluable recommendations.
One of the best API talks ever, both in substance (the doctrine, the fundamentals) and in form: direct, bold, and sustained. Bravo.
Best talk of the entire #web2day #blowmymind
Francois-Guillaume Ribreau is one on the best JavaScript developer I have ever met. We hired him to rewrite from scratch one of our core component at iadvize and he did an exceptional job.
François-Guillaume has both a very broad general IT knowledge and sharp expertise in new technologies. His theoretical knowledge is illustrated by his own field experience.
Following a half-day exchange about database performance issues, François-Guillaume's advice enabled us to quickly reduce response times across our services.
He knows and recommends the right tools for every situation, and is able to structure things in a simple and effective way. A real pleasure to work with.
Excellent architect. François-Guillaume has a rare ability to see the system as a whole and propose pragmatic, tailored solutions.
Flawless technical expertise paired with product and business vision. François-Guillaume is a rare profile who perfectly bridges both worlds.
François-Guillaume has both a very broad general IT knowledge and sharp expertise in new technologies. His theoretical knowledge is illustrated by his own field experience.
Following a half-day exchange about database performance issues, François-Guillaume's advice enabled us to quickly reduce response times across our services.
He knows and recommends the right tools for every situation, and is able to structure things in a simple and effective way. A real pleasure to work with.
Excellent architect. François-Guillaume has a rare ability to see the system as a whole and propose pragmatic, tailored solutions.
Flawless technical expertise paired with product and business vision. François-Guillaume is a rare profile who perfectly bridges both worlds.
I warmly recommend François-Guillaume for his exceptional and inspiring teaching. His remarkable pedagogy makes complex concepts accessible to everyone. Beyond his technical skills, he cultivates critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
Without exaggeration, I learned more concepts, skills, and best practices than in an entire year... He gave us the drive, the passion, and his unique perspective on this fantastic profession that is software engineering. Thank you.
At a time when I was starting to lose faith in IT, you reminded me that there is magic and always a universe of things to discover. Since that class, I have loads of new ideas and I've picked up several personal projects again.
Certainly the most professionally enriching instructor I've ever met. It's above all his vision of technology, pedagogy, and entrepreneurship that we benefited from the most.
Passionate and captivating. François-Guillaume knows how to share his knowledge and inspire people to go further.
A truly inspiring lecturer. His passion for tech and entrepreneurship is contagious. He pushes his students to think big and take action.
He's one of those passionate, long-bearded people who share their knowledge with boundless energy. A class with François-Guillaume is always a memorable experience.
I warmly recommend François-Guillaume for his exceptional and inspiring teaching. His remarkable pedagogy makes complex concepts accessible to everyone. Beyond his technical skills, he cultivates critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
Without exaggeration, I learned more concepts, skills, and best practices than in an entire year... He gave us the drive, the passion, and his unique perspective on this fantastic profession that is software engineering. Thank you.
At a time when I was starting to lose faith in IT, you reminded me that there is magic and always a universe of things to discover. Since that class, I have loads of new ideas and I've picked up several personal projects again.
Certainly the most professionally enriching instructor I've ever met. It's above all his vision of technology, pedagogy, and entrepreneurship that we benefited from the most.
Passionate and captivating. François-Guillaume knows how to share his knowledge and inspire people to go further.
A truly inspiring lecturer. His passion for tech and entrepreneurship is contagious. He pushes his students to think big and take action.
He's one of those passionate, long-bearded people who share their knowledge with boundless energy. A class with François-Guillaume is always a memorable experience.
Fascinating classes. François-Guillaume generously shares his field experience and pushes everyone to give their best.
His ability to push us, to push our knowledge ever further, is remarkable. You come out of his classes with a transformed view of the profession.
A passionate and pedagogical lecturer. François-Guillaume makes complex topics accessible while maintaining a high level of standards.
François-Guillaume knows how to make a class dynamic and captivating. His energy and passion for web development are contagious.
An exceptional internship supervisor and mentor. François-Guillaume taught me far more than code: a true philosophy of development and entrepreneurship.
François-Guillaume shares his passion for JavaScript with rare authenticity. His classes are a concentrate of field experience and best practices.
Fascinating classes. François-Guillaume generously shares his field experience and pushes everyone to give their best.
His ability to push us, to push our knowledge ever further, is remarkable. You come out of his classes with a transformed view of the profession.
A passionate and pedagogical lecturer. François-Guillaume makes complex topics accessible while maintaining a high level of standards.
François-Guillaume knows how to make a class dynamic and captivating. His energy and passion for web development are contagious.
An exceptional internship supervisor and mentor. François-Guillaume taught me far more than code: a true philosophy of development and entrepreneurship.
François-Guillaume shares his passion for JavaScript with rare authenticity. His classes are a concentrate of field experience and best practices.

60 fundamental principles for CTOs, VP Eng., Lead Devs
5 years of writing. 60 principles drawn from 15 years in the field. No bullshit.
Discover the book →Technical articles, experience reports and reflections on SaaS, architecture and entrepreneurship.
They trust me with the technical due diligence of their targets before they invest.
They trusted me to audit their technical foundations.
You're backing a technical asset the management describes to you. Before you sign, I go and see what it's really worth.
Your CTO tells you everything is fine, your teams are slowing down, and the explanations don't add up. I give you the real answer, in the language of decisions.
I interview the target's CEO, CTO and technical leads. I compare what each of them believes about their system with what I actually find in the code and on the servers.
I interview your CTO and your technical leads, then I hold their explanations against what the code, the servers, the team organization and the methodology used across the whole software lifecycle actually show. That's often where the gap between the story and the reality becomes visible.
An audit that stops at interviews, without a review of the source code or the servers, misses half the problems. The code describes the intent, the running servers describe the reality, and the gap between the two concentrates the risk on the asset. I read the source code, under NDA if needed, then I inspect the servers in execution and in configuration. That's where the security flaws and configuration defects hide, the ones that weigh on performance and security, and that the target won't report to you.
An audit that stops at interviews, without a review of the source code or the servers, misses half the problems. The tickets and the business owners describe the intent, which rarely matches what was actually written in the source code. The reality of the customer experience plays out on the production servers. That's exactly what I check, on both sides. I read the source code, under NDA if needed, then I inspect the servers in execution and in configuration, where the flaws and configuration defects that weigh on performance and security hide.
How the product's building blocks communicate, where the single points of failure sit, and what gives way when traffic is multiplied by ten.
Is the code still modular and changeable without breaking everything, or does coupling spread every change everywhere and slow the team down?
Does the infrastructure scale with the company's growth, on the performance side? I add a FinOps analysis: I compare your infrastructure costs with those of similar-size companies I've already observed, then I identify the possible optimizations, in performance as well as cost.
Do your teams go from source code to deployment without depending on anyone? Is their breakdown aligned with business stakes, with infrastructure, and with the codebase? The goal is autonomous teams: a short time-to-market, and a company that stays aggressive in its market.
Does the way of delivering really serve the company's goals and align the teams on a shared trajectory, or does it burn budget off-target?
From the stated need to the shipped code, I measure the drift at each step: gathering, specification, implementation, quality.
Real exposure surface: reachable data, over-broad rights, vulnerable dependencies. I measure it in the code and on the servers actually running.
This is the health that determines future speed: tests, readability, technical debt. That hidden debt slows every change down.
The scope narrows to what drives the decision: red flags, quantified technical debt, the team's ability to deliver the roadmap, security and compliance risks. The debrief decides: go, no-go, or go with conditions, with the impact on valuation.
I already work with Arkéa Capital, MAIF Avenir, SofiOuest, NCI and Caisse des Dépôts.
Your product holds up, your team ships, and the technical side, the methodology and the alignment of your teams' organization with your stakes all stay a black box you can't audit yourself. I give you a verified answer, in the language of decisions: where velocity stalls, where software quality stalls, what your real exposure is on security and GDPR, whether the team is sized for the roadmap ahead, and what technical debt is costing you. I come as an ally of your CTO. I leave them precise, actionable arguments and recommendations on their tech stack, their methodology and their team organization, to defend their work in front of you.
I've already run these audits for Ouest-France, Klaxoon, France's Ministry of the Interior, Ascor, Guest Suite, Wanteeed and COMAP.
For your most complex technical challenges.
The detailed assessment to decide with confidence.
A fast first read, or investment due diligence.

Bistronomic restaurant in Nantes
Graduated with honors. Information Retrieval, Concurrent & Parallel Programming, Collaborative Distributed Systems (P2P).
Valedictorian. Level 1 certified degree, 5-year Engineering program (MSc equivalent).
Application Development specialization.
Top 900 global contributors on GitHub (2022). redis-info, mailchecker, requestretry, truncate, unidecode... Redis Weekly acquired by Redis Labs in 2017 after 184 issues.
See all 307 repos on GitHub →spinners (6M downloads), querystring (1.4M), mailchecker (739K), stripe-integration, hook0-client, kubectx, savon...
See all 26 crates on crates.io →Vulnerabilities discovered and responsibly disclosed in CNIL software (French Data Protection Authority) and in Miro (collaboration platform used by millions of users). Systematic responsible disclosure approach.
Two formats to unblock an issue, make a tough decision, or think out loud with someone who has been in your shoes.
A blocking issue. A decision to make. An external perspective on your architecture, organization, or go-to-market.
For CEOs, CTOs, CPOs and COOs who want to be challenged, not reassured.
Everything discussed in session stays in session. No client name is mentioned without explicit agreement.