David Segonds
Chief Executive Officer at Start Bridge
Montpellier, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolDavid Segonds is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 13 years in software leadership and over two decades of technical experience spanning R&D, product, and IT. As CEO of Start Bridge he builds a productivity platform that blends CRM and social networking to structure pitches, offers, and tender processes through a guided “Bridge” workflow. Previously he led digital product and software development organizations at Royal Dutch Shell, driving ML and computer-vision initiatives, large-scale offshoring transformations, and Agile rollouts across 40+ person teams. His background in geosciences and early career work on complex C++ geomodeling systems gives him uncommon domain depth for enterprise SaaS and data-driven product design. Known for turning large engineering organizations toward measurable efficiency gains (including a 75% cost reduction through managed services), he combines hands-on technical judgment with strategic vendor and people management. Based in Montpellier, France, he blends research-grade problem solving with practical product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geosciences, PhD, Geosciences at Institut National Polytechnique de LorraineEngineer, Geology, Engineer, Geology at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy
French, English
Github Skills (12)
hugo9
hugo-theme9
multilingual9
grayscale9
high-performance8
tachyons4
flask2
obsidian2
python2
digitalocean1
oauth1
authentication1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pirate42/docc
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:81 commits in 2 months
dsegonds/hugo-PaperMod
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
A fast, clean, responsive Hugo theme.
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
hugoshortcodecleanresponsivehugo-theme
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