Free culture advocate, hacker turned entrepreneur and conference organizer. I love to create companies, bootstrap communities and hack free software!

Founder & CTO @ Pricing Assistant is a service that optimizes the pricing of online stores. We give them smart recommendations based on competitors and sales histories. http://www.pricingassistant.com From December 2012 to Present (3 years 1 month) Paris Area, FranceFounder @ dotConferences is a series of technology events in Paris. We want to bring an unheard-of, TED-like level of quality to tech conferences. Our current events are dotJS, dotCSS, dotScale, dotSecurity, dotGo, dotSwift, each gathering 300 to 1000 developers. http://dotconferences.io From November 2012 to Present (3 years 2 months) Paris Area, FrancePartner @ 50 Partners is a great startup accelerator based in Paris: http://www.50partners.fr/ From 2013 to Present (2 years) Paris Area, FranceGoogle Developer Expert @ Google Developers Expert is a yearly award recognizing top-contributing members of Google developer communities for their technical contribution and impact. https://developers.google.com/experts/ From October 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Paris Area, FranceInvestor & Advisor @ Sketchfab is the YouTube of 3D! From October 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Co-founder @ TEDxParis was the 3rd TEDx event to happen in the world. From our first event with 100 attendees at La Cantine, we grew to 1400 in 2012 with an event at L'Olympia, the best concert hall in Paris. From July 2009 to Present (6 years 6 months) Paris Area, FranceFounder @ Jamendo is the largest Creative Commons music community in the world. It is my first company and I currently sit on the board. From May 2004 to Present (11 years 8 months) LuxembourgCo-founder & CTO @ Joshfire is an Internet of Things company. In 2 years I hired and led the brightest HTML5/JavaScript team in Paris and put Joshfire at the center of the Paris web scene. From November 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 2 months) Paris Area, FranceCTO @ I wrote all the original code of Jamendo for the first 2 years and then led a tech team that eventually grew to 10 people after we raised series A. From April 2004 to May 2011 (7 years 2 months)

PhD, Computer science @ Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble From 2005 to 2006 Sylvain Zimmer is skilled in: Web Development, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Image Processing, Agile, Linux, CSS, MySQL, Programming, Software Development, Architecture, Mobile, Web Design, Start-ups