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Loïc Ortola

About me

Combining a cutting-edge technical vision with strategy and leadership, I am leading company-wide AI transformations at Takima and for its clients.

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Loïc Ortola
CTO and board member at Takima. Based in Paris.
How I work
  • Strong leader, doer, with great leadership, tech expertise and public speaking abilities.
  • Strategy, management and executive experience, always while keeping a foot in tech
  • Fluent in French and English (C2, near-native)
  • Teacher, Trainer international Speaker
  • Entrepreneur: founded 2 companies

Technical skills

Platform engineering
Cloud nativeTerraformAnsibleKubernetesCrossplaneArgo CD
Cloud and DevOps
GitLab CIAWSGCPDORA
Development
JavaKotlinNode.jsAngularReactNext.jsNestJSSQL and NoSQLRabbitMQ
AI
LLM and agent standardsMCPAgentsRAGDurable executionObservability
Architecture
Distributed systemsEvent-driven architecture
Other
n8nSalesforceESP32Arduino
AIs I use every day
  • Gemini for general purpose, with custom agents and Gems
  • Claude (mostly Opus) for development and tech
  • Claude Cowork for integrations and automations: LinkedIn, email triage and more
  • NotebookLM for business work, RFQs and RFPs
MCPs and skills my agents use most:Context7RTKCavemanFigma

Teaching and speaking

Giving a talk to a packed lecture hall
“The best way to learn? Teach.”
Frank Oppenheimer

I love inspiring others by sharing my passion and respect for our job. For a decade I have spoken at public and private conferences, executive meetings and schools, and my ratings at public tech conferences average in the top 5%.

Schools I have spoken or taught at

EpitaEPFINSA LyonINSA RouenEFREIEpitechÉcole 42ECE ParisCPE LyonUTT TroyesUTC CompiègneKedgeENSTA ParisTechMines de Nantes

Education

Master of Engineering, IT
CPE Lyon, Lyon. 2009 – 2013
Preparatory classes
Les Chartreux, Lyon. 2007 – 2009

Latest projects

When I'm not on stage, I'm usually coding with my agents behind my laptop or doing something with my hands in my workshop: woodwork, 3D printers and laser engravers, and plenty of ESP32 and Arduino hacks.

All projects
DécouPano
Free online cutting plans for wood panels, from your first cabinet to a whole kitchen.
Next.jsReact
Surroundify
A self-hosted spatial audio player: build a room, place your sounds in it, drive it from your phone.
Next.jsReactNode.js
Homex
Room automations for Home Assistant, built from one panel, without YAML.
Home AssistantPythonTypeScript
Deadlock
An open-source coding and hacking game platform.
JavaJavaFXSpring Boot