Director of Data & Technology. Building data platforms at work, small Python and AI projects at home. Avgeek.

I've spent the last ten years at Areka, a business travel advisory firm in Paris. I joined as a BI consultant. Today I run data, AI and IT for the whole company.

I got here the long way round: telecom engineering in Bengaluru, two years at Accenture, then a Masters at EPITA in Paris.

I'm also an avgeek. Show me a plane in the sky and I'll tell you the make, the model and the airline. Outside work I build small things with Python and AI, and watch a lot of football, tennis and Formula 1.

Long haul

The big stuff, at work

What I've built and what I run at Areka. I was one of the first employees, so most of it started from zero.

Product A data and reporting platform, from idea to launch

I led the creation of our SaaS reporting platform: the vision, the features and the roadmap.

AI AI built into the product and how we work

Agents, LLM-powered analytics and automated data engineering, designed, built and governed in-house.

Infra The company's entire IT and data infrastructure

I own it end to end: cloud, data pipelines and models, security, and compliance with GDPR and ISO standards.

People A data and tech team, built from zero

I built the team and still lead it. I stay hands-on.

Clients Demos and client conversations

I run the demos, dig into what clients actually need, and shape the product around it.

Fleet

The tech I work with

Cloud

  • Azure
  • Google Cloud

Data

  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Databricks
  • Python
  • SQL

BI

  • Power BI
  • TIBCO Spotfire
  • Looker Studio

AI

  • Claude
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot

IT

  • Microsoft 365
  • Entra ID
  • Intune
  • Power Automate

Build

  • Claude Code
  • GitHub

Short haul

The small stuff, at home

Things I build because I want them to exist.

AI Morning Paper Cruising

I was losing the first hour of my day to my phone. So now an AI agent writes me a personal newspaper every morning at 6. It covers what I care about, remembers what it already told me, and unlike a feed, it ends.

Aviation Plane-Over-Me Taxiing

An always-on LED display for my living room that shows the plane flying over my head: flight, route, aircraft and altitude. It picks what to show using rules I set, so an A380 or a 747 jumps the queue.

The display cycling through flights over Paris: flight number, route, aircraft type, airline, altitude and distance.
Real output from the project, replaying recorded traffic over Paris.
Games Mini games for my 3-year-old son Taxiing

Small iPad games, starting with a dinosaur runner. Private, behind a login, with games added and removed as he grows.

Web This website Landed

Plain HTML and CSS, hosted for free on GitHub Pages.