Available for freelance
Baptiste Parpette
CTO · Technical founder · AI product builder · Forward deployed engineer
About
Hybrid technical founder across tech, product, and business. Former co-founder and CTO of Clustor, I take a fuzzy customer problem and turn it into a concrete AI product: architecture, fullstack, AI agents, integrations, demos, onboarding, and sales. I thrive in 0-to-1 environments where you have to build fast, build well, and ship real impact.
~800
DAU at Clustor
$55k
ARR in 12 months
3 mo
in San Francisco
5 yr
of engineering work
Expertise (44)
Languages
Experience
Clustor
CTO & Co-founder
AI-native B2B SaaS · Technology
Feb. 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mo · Paris, FR / San Francisco, USA
- Co-founded Clustor, the AI agent for consulting firms (a 'Cursor for consulting' that automates low value-added tasks across ERP, Outlook, Teams, and LinkedIn).
- Grew the company from 0 to ~800 daily active users and ~$55k ARR in 12 months.
- Owned the full technical stack: Next.js, Node.js, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Vercel, Azure, Microsoft 365, Boond, and LLM orchestration.
- Shipped production AI workflows: CV ingestion, tailored competency files, semantic search, candidate-to-mission matching, meeting transcription, summarization, and CRM sync.
- Spent 3 months in San Francisco to learn the US market, refine the product, and build US distribution.
- Signed a strategic partnership with Boond (industry-leading ERP for consulting firms).
- Beyond engineering: B2B demos, onboarding, support, pricing, vendor programs, and investor / accelerator communication.
BGL BNP Paribas
Cloud Development Engineer · Internship
Banking
Apr. 2024 - Aug. 2024 · 5 mo · Luxembourg, LU
- Context: migration from BGL cloud to a dedicated IBM cloud.
- Built an application architecture visualization tool based on the C4 Model.
- Benchmarked Cloud IDE solutions for internal development teams.
- Developed an S3 client in Python communicating with a local MinIO server.
- Presented the three solutions to technical teams, CTO, and CIO.
INSA Lyon
Research project · Zero-knowledge proofs (Groth16)
Higher Education
Sept. 2023 - May 2024 · 9 mo · Lyon, FR
- Conducted an exhaustive state of the art on Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP).
- Implemented the Groth16 protocol in Python (elliptic curve cryptography).
- Co-authored 3 Medium articles to make ZKPs accessible to a wider engineering audience.
- Supervised by Stephane Frenot, Head of the Telecom department at INSA Lyon.
SFR
Network Supervisor
Telecommunications
Jun. 2023 - Oct. 2023 · 5 mo · Bron, FR
- Supervised the SFR hosting backbone network.
- Analyzed incidents and dispatched them to the appropriate technical teams.
GoStudent
Student Tutor · Freelance
Education
Sept. 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mo · Remote
200+ hours of tutoring in math, physics, and computer science, from middle school to second-year university level.
E.Leclerc
Order Picker
Retail
Jun. 2021 - Oct. 2021 · 5 mo · Brignais, FR
InTest
Internship
Industrial machinery
Jun. 2017 - Jul. 2017 · 2 mo
Renault Trucks
Internship
Automotive
May 2016 · 1 mo
Education
INSA Lyon · National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon
2020 - 2025 · 5 yrs
Engineering degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science. Research track in Cryptography and Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Entrepreneurial program at FEE Lyon Tech.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Aug. 2024 - Dec. 2024 · 5 mo
Academic exchange. Courses: AI, Computer Graphics, Cybersecurity, low-level programming.
Ecole La Mache
2017 - 2020 · 3 yrs
High School Diploma (STI2D, Information Systems & Digital), highest honors (18.3 / 20).
Licenses & certifications
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Anthropic · Issued Jul. 2025
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics
Anthropic · Issued Jul. 2025
Links
Have a concrete problem to solve?
Tell me what you’re trying to ship and by when. I’ll tell you within 48 hours whether I’m the right person for it.
Based in Paris · Available remote or on-site across EU and US.