Summary
Jean-francois Joly is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building cloud and edge AI products, currently leading product for Midokura’s AI Factory platform for sovereign private AI deployments. He combines hands-on technical chops from his engineering leadership roles with product strategy experience at New Relic, Timescale and Sony Semicon, guiding projects from design thinking and prototyping through launch, support and go-to-market. He has a track record of forming and scaling interdisciplinary, multicultural teams across Europe and Asia and driving developer adoption via open-source initiatives like AITRIOS Edge Device Core. Comfortable across the stack—from bare-metal GPU infrastructure to managed inference and agent workloads—he focuses on reducing latency, cost and privacy risk in edge AI solutions. Known for introducing agile practices and measurable KPIs, he blends operational rigor with experimentation to deliver customer-delighting products. Based in Barcelona, he thrives at the intersection of product, partners and developer communities, often translating complex technical constraints into pragmatic roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, IT project management, M.Sc, IT project management at Industry Chamber of Versailles
DESS (one year postgraduate degree), Network and System Engineering, DESS (one year postgraduate degree), Network and System Engineering at UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
English, French, Spanish, German