Sylvain Zimmer
About
Sylvain Zimmer is from Paris, Île-de-France, France. Sylvain is currently Chief Technology Officer of La Suite territoriale (EIG) at Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM), located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Sylvain also works as Head of the CTO Office at Contentsquare, a job Sylvain has held since Jan 2019. Another title Sylvain currently holds is Investor & Early Advisor at BeReal..
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Sylvain Zimmer's current jobs
La Suite territoriale aims to provide an open source online workspace to all public service employees across France. It is supported by the agencies ANCT, DINUM and ANSSI. I was appointed CTO through the private-to-public "Entrepreneur d'Intérêt Général" program. More about this career change: https://sylvainzimmer.com/blog/2025/01/public-sector/
I led a dedicated team of Senior Staff Engineers working on transversal high-impact projects like architecture, internal processes for 450+ developers & acquisitions (most notably Hotjar and Heap).
Sold to Voodoo for 500M€. https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hightech/voodoo-rachete-le-reseau-social-bereal-2100723
After dotConferences was acquired by Welcome to the Jungle, I happily remained in charge of selecting, vetting and coaching speakers, until COVID put a halt to the conferences.
[Acquired by Welcome to the Jungle in February 2019] dotConferences is a series of technology events in Paris that pioneered an unheard-of, TED-like level of quality. From 2012 to 2020, we organized 36 events (dotJS, dotCSS, dotScale, dotSecurity, dotGo, dotSwift) gathering 300 to 1400 developers. I was the main speaker curator and coach. http://dotconferences.com
Sketchfab is the YouTube of 3D! I was one of their first angel investors and advisor. They were acquired in 2021 by Epic Games. Full story: https://sylvainzimmer.com/blog/2021/07/sketchfab/
[Acquired by Contentsquare in June 2019] Pricing Assistant is a service that optimizes the pricing of online stores. We give them smart recommendations based on competitors and sales histories. http://www.pricingassistant.com
Google Developers Expert is a yearly award recognizing top-contributing members of Google developer communities for their technical contribution and impact. https://developers.google.com/experts/
[Fully acquired by AudioValley in 2019] Jamendo is the largest Creative Commons music community in the world. It was my first company and after leaving my CTO role I continued to sit on the board until 2019.