Christophe VENDEVILLE

Christophe VENDEVILLE


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👋 Hi there, and welcome to my page!
With over 8 years of experience in IT, consulting, and SaaS, I help organizations modernize their IT systems, implement Cloud solutions, and adopt DevOps practices to improve reliability, quality, and performance.
💡 What drives me most is connecting business needs with technical solutions, enabling teams to deliver real impact, and building sustainable, practical solutions.
 
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AWS Expert for SMB & Midmarket EMEA @Ippon Technologies

☎️ Contact information

📲 (+33) 607 690 374
🌐 LinkedIn

👨🏻‍💻 Work experience

AWS Specialist

IPPON TECHNOLOGIES (present), Nantes
I lead business development for SMB clients (<€30M revenue) across EMEA, driving cloud and AI adoption on AWS to accelerate growth and scale.

Product Marketing Manager - Lucca Performance

LUCCA (2024 - 2025) – Nantes
Led the product and go-to-market strategy for Lucca Performance, an HR performance & talent development SaaS.
  1. Adoption Strategy — Designed and optimized the user journey (product tours, demos, free trial, PLG motions) to boost activation, engagement, and retention.
  1. Go-to-Market & Launches — Coordinated beta programs, launch plans, and marketing campaigns in collaboration with Product, Sales, and Marketing teams.
  1. Performance Monitoring — Tracked key metrics via Salesforce and Power BI to identify growth levers and refine product strategy.
  1. Cross-Functional Alignment — Gathered field feedback and worked closely with resellers and internal teams to influence the product roadmap and reinforce value perception.

Practice Manager | Data & AI community

ONEPOINT (2022 - 2024) – Nantes Led and scaled the Data & AI practice, growing the team from 12 to 20 consultants and directly managing a team of 5. Worked with Mid-Market and Enterprise clients across data platforms, cloud modernization, and AI use cases.
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🛒 U TECH - Project Manager & DevOps for move-to-cloud project (GCP)
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In charge of the migration of several on-prem business applications from Système U to Google Cloud Platform : GKE, VMs, Cloud Storage…
💳 BPCE-IT- Data Solutions Manager for BI projects
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In charge of several decision-making tools (BI) for retail banking users. Define and track KPI, manage the product development lifecycle, implementation of new features, enrichment of the product roadmap…

Cloud & Data consultant | CTO Advisory

WAVESTONE (2018 - 2022) – Paris Supported cloud and data platform transformation for Enterprise accounts, while driving business development and expanding the AWS partnership. Contributed to training and recruitment to strengthen team expertise and delivery capacity.
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ENGIE - Product Leader in charge of CommonDataHub
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In charge of the product management and adoption of the CommonDataHub (AWS Datalake | YouTube) and its continuous improvement. I provide support to users to take full advantage of the value proposition of our product : “Store, Share & Play with data”. 850 users (x5 in 2 years) playing with 2000 data projects, approximately ~30.000 datasets (=200TB) We designed and delivered a new data ecosystem to offer full coverage from data collection to visualization. Then, I managed a team of 3 people to move adoption at scale and industrialize use cases.
TOTALENERGIES - Project Manager for move-to-cloud project
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Drive the migration of a critical custom-made app to AWS, improving performance and reducing costs
🛰️ EUTELSAT - Project Manager to build a new retail platform
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In charge of building a brand new retail platform (Konnect) to support business model shift towards B2B2C. Partner with the entire team to identify issues to solve and opportunities to tackle Communicate concisely and influence outcomes
💳 SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE - Project Manager to secure recruitment for tech profiles
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Transversal governance effort on the DevOps transformation of development teams, in an Agile@Scale environment: attractiveness, cross-skilling, onboarding, events, community, etc. Also in charge of the recruitment taskforce to ensure a fast-track journey to secure GTS target jobs and retain the best talents to build the Private Cloud ecosystem: 9 tribes, ~400 qualified applications
💳 SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE - QA tester to digitize the user journey experience
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I am responsible for QA on the customer relationship management (CRM) tool with the objective of revamping it to support the implementation of new customer acquisition processes for retail banking

Account Manager (B2B)

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE (2016 - 2018) – Montauban Managed a portfolio of 500 B2B clients and drove new business acquisition through prospecting and cold-calling. Also supported digital initiatives and FinTech awareness, and provided training at the Tarn-et-Garonne CMA.

Data Analyst

TBS ALUMNI (2016) – Toulouse
Managing the 35.000+ alumni network and conducting statistical studies on school promotions.

🛠 Core skills

Project management & Product strategy

  • Product & IT Roadmap: define strategy, scope features, prioritize initiatives for Cloud & DevSecOps adoption
  • User Adoption & Change Management: onboarding, training, continuous feedback to ensure real uptake of solutions
  • SaaS & Cloud Expertise: deep understanding of business models, Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and GTM strategies
  • Project Delivery & Coordination: end-to-end project management, team alignment (MOA/MOE/Tech), monitoring KPIs and ensuring quality

Data & AI

  • Data platforms: Databricks, Snowflake, Dataiku, Palantir Foundry
  • BI & monitoring: PowerBI, Qlik, Datadog
  • AI & ML: SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q

Technology & Tooling

  • Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Automation & No-code: Airtable, Notion, Webflow, n8n, Make, Zapier

🗣 Languages

🇫🇷 French - Native speaker
🇺🇸 English - Fluent speaker
🇪🇸 Spanish - Intermediate speaker

📜 Articles and Talks

🗣 Speaker about “The Power of habits”, TEDxParis @Wavestone (2019)

🎓Education

Master in Entrepreneurship & Innovation - Toulouse Business School

@TBS Education 2015-2018 – Toulouse

Preparatory Classes – Economics

Lycée Gambetta Carnot 2013-2015 – Arras

Baccalauréat in Economics & Social Sciences

Lycée Albert Châtelet 2010-2013 – Douai