Lead Software Engineer, Platform & Data at Uptale
I lead the Platform & Data team at Uptale: the accounts, integrations and analytics that every immersive learning experience runs on, plus the backend services and cloud infrastructure underneath. Full-stack by trade, strongest on the backend and infrastructure side, and the go-to engineer for colleagues on the other areas of the product.
Before industry, I completed a PhD on distributed self-reconfiguration algorithms for modular robots, working towards programmable matter at the FEMTO-ST Institute.
Uptale lets companies create, distribute and track 360° and virtual reality training at scale, and raised 9 million euros in 2024 to accelerate. The product has three areas: Studio, where immersive experiences are authored, Playtime, where they are played in headsets and browsers, and Platform, the SaaS backbone that ties everything together. I joined shortly after my PhD, when Uptale was still an early-stage startup, and have grown with it into a fast-scaling company: software engineer, then senior, and lead of the Platform & Data team since 2026.
Research on distributed intelligence for programmable matter: how large ensembles of simple modular micro-robots can coordinate to rearrange themselves into arbitrary 3D shapes, quickly.
Designed a secure REST backend in C# for an ERP aimed at non-profit organisations, a reactive Vue.js module for its web app and a cross-platform Xamarin mobile application on top of the same API.
Took VisibleSim from a pre-release prototype to its first stable version: architecture overhaul, refactoring, documentation and new modules to support ongoing research.
Contributed to modular robotics research for programmable matter and implemented in C an embedded virtual machine for the Meld declarative language, later used in teaching and research.
Graduated with high honours, specialising in information systems engineering. Exchange semester at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Accounts, integrations and analytics for Uptale's immersive learning product: the SaaS backbone that Studio and Playtime experiences run on, used by large organisations to distribute and track 360° and VR training across headsets, browsers and learning management systems.
Open source C++ simulator for modular robots and programmable matter. I led its development for five years, from a research prototype to a tool used by teams in France, Hong Kong and the United States.
My doctoral research: a deterministic, fully distributed way for swarms of rotating micro-modules to build the internal scaffold of a shape and coat it, cutting reconfiguration time by orders of magnitude.
An embedded virtual machine written in C for Meld, the declarative language of the Claytronics project at Carnegie Mellon, so that logic programs could run directly on resource-constrained robot modules.
Recorded on 9 October 2020 in Montbéliard, France. The presentation itself starts at 22:45; the chapters below jump straight to each part.
