# Nyconyco ⚡ Nÿco ⚡ LibreProduct (@nyconyco.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/nyconyco.bsky.social
Headline: Senior Product Manager | Open Source, AI, Innovation, Strategy & Execution | AI PoC→Prod in 5 months | x2 consultancy revenue | workforce & income 100% growth | 25 yrs xp | Impact & Outcome
Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

## About

Fractional CPO: your part-time Product leader (freelance Senior Product Manager, Head of Product)=> I help B2B SaaS cofounders grow their product lines 25 years of experience, in large range of contexts, from  open source to AI, from entrepreneurship to innovation, leading product strategy from early-stage startups to unicorns. Expert in Agile, Lean Startup, and Design Thinking, with a track record of transforming ideas into scalable, impactful products. Creator of Lean Storytelling canvas.Numbered Outcomes:Took an AI product from PoC to prod in 5 months at Sapient | Doubled revenue & headcount at Arawa over 2 years | Doubled consulting revenue attributable to MongooseIM at Erlang Solutions | Divided user onboarding friction by 2 and reduced churn by 2 at Flex.AI | Delivered the Stellantis "Trips in Cloud" feature across 5 brands, on time, in a complex multi-brand and multi-tech automotive ecosystem.Call To Action: let's collaborate together, contact me now!

## Experience

- **Freelance Product Manager for Open Source Software Editors at LibreProduct.tech** (2026 – present)
  Strategy & Execution
  Commercial/Monetisation & Community/Ecosystem
  Build & Run
  
- **Founder, Freelance Product Owner at Nayego EURL** (2013 – 2016)
  Founder at Nayego EURL, as freelance || Agile & Product at scale  Major roles:
  \* Agile Product Ownership, Product Management
  \* Startup coach and advisor
  \* Opensource consulting
- **Product Owner, Messaging (web, backend, feature team) at Orange Vallée** (2013 – 2015)
  Product Owner for multiple teams || Agile & Product at scale  Libon (formerly known as "Life is Better On") is an iPhone, Android, and web app, for power voicemail, HD VoIP, and messaging. I was responsible for idea grooming, product backlog management and prioritisation, feature design, values for user stories and epics, KPI design, Behaviour Driven Development (BDD, Gherkin), workshop organisation, ceremonies facilitator, Definitions of Ready and Done, continuous improvement of processes, and delivery.
  
  Successively Product Owner for:
  \* Real-Time/XMPP backend, written in erlang, hosted on Amazon AWS, for messaging and push notifications
  \* Web client, based on HTML5 technologies, including WebRTC, single-page web app, responsive design
  \* Messaging (Feature Team), cross-component team, user-facing products, with shared backends
- **Staff Product Manager, AI training/inference at FlexAI** (2025 – 2026)
  • Owned the scope and specification for AI Workload-as-a-Service, authoring comprehensive product specifications, in order fo AI/ML engineers to build, fine-tune and deploy custom AI models at scale.
  • Collaborated with engineering and sales teams to align product vision, GTM strategies, and messaging.
  • Conducted market research to ensure product direction met evolving demands in the competitive AI infrastructure landscape.
  
  Outcome: Divided onboarding steps by 2, reduced churn by 2, compressed the founding team's alignment cycle from weeks to days using AI-assisted roadmapping.
- **Associate Director Product Management - Senior Manager - Senior Specialist at Publicis Sapient France** (2023 – 2025)
  I have acted as Product Manager, Coach, Mentor, Trainer, in large range of verticals such as Automotive, Communication, Consulting, Financial services, Education
  \- KED & UnlocKED (Knowledge Exchange Day) as speaker, trainer, host, coach: Data Product Management, Lean Storytelling, AI Product Management startup Krisspy, Scaleway as sovereign cloud, kanban training (Pizza Game, Kanbanzine), questionning. Outcome: continuous training
  \- Edenred as Product Coach on eComponents team of 50+ members, 10+ PM/PO, coaching/mentoring. Outcome: more mature/effective Product organisation (SAFe-like)
  \- Stellantis as PM for delivery of "Trips in Cloud" feature (migration from in-car bluetooth connection to the cloud) on "Trip Reports" in MyMarque mobile app, for xP/PSA brands (MyPeugeot, MyCitroen, MyDS, MyOpel, MyVauxhall). Outcome: delivery of full scope and quality in due time, given complex cross-brand, diverse technology stacks, and diverging lifecycles
  \- IÉSEG School of Management as Business Case provider, Product Coach, and jury, on hackathon, around automotive innovation, with high complexity regarding car, hardware and software lifecycles and business models. Outcome: coached, and evaluated 100+ students
  \- Publicis Sapient's Antigreenwashing AI, for Publicis Groupe agencies, as PM/PO/SM/intrapreneur, doing innovation, industrialisation, operationalisation & productisation, user research, launch & go to market. Outcome: transformation from PoC to prod in 5 months,  high satisfaction scores across Publicis Groupe agencies
  \- Flexis, Joint Venture with Renault, Volvo, CMA CGM, leader of innovation Studio, delivered a working code-based protoype. Outcome: demoing innovative approach to modern fleet management
  \- Training on advanced AI prompting for augmented Consulting: user & market research, hands-on usage research, with co-design, promotion. Outcome: delivery of training program to dozens of internal and external consulting, resulting in very high appraisals
- **Lead, Senior Product Manager (IaaS Offers) at Scaleway** (2022 – 2022)
  Lead Product Manager, managing three PMs || Awoken dormant product, setup Lead PMs in middle management, animation of Product Guild, bridging Product with Sales & Marketing   Acting PM (IC):
  \* Block Storage  Manager of:
  \* PM Instances
  \* PM Dedicated servers: Elastic Metal, Bare Metal, Dédibox
  \* PM GPU  Roles:
  \* Strategy and operations
  \* Discovery and delivery
  \* Hardware, data center, and supply chain
  \* Coaching, mentoring and pairing/peering
  \* Product Guild animation
- **Senior Product Manager & Strategy at Arawa** (2019 – 2021)
  Right arm to the CEO || x2 income, x2 head count, reworked pre-sales, built inbound funnel, reviewed project methodology, Prix "Acteurs du Libre" 2021, meilleure stratégie Open Source  Business Strategy
  \* Marketing/communication
  \* Sales
  \* Vision, roadmap
  \* Change management
  \* Team building  Product management
  \* Open innovation
  \* Lean Startup
  \* Agile
  \* Design Thinking
  \* Upstream contributions: UX, docs, user tests, vision, strategy, planning  Consulting
  \* Videoconferencing: BigBlueButton, Jitsi Meet, Nextcloud Talk
  \* Instant messaging: XMPP, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost
  \* File sharing and collaboration: Nextcloud, Collabora Online, OnlyOffice
  \* Project management  Pre-sales
  \* Qualification
  \* Priorisation
  \* Quotation  Digital Marketing
  \* Social media
  \* Content strategy
  \* Inbound marketing
  \* Newsletter
  \* Webinars
  \* Data analytics
  \* Blogging  Outcome: Directly contributed to x2 annual revenue and x2 headcount. Built the company's inbound funnel from zero — blog, newsletter, social media, webinars — generating first consistent organic lead flow. Won "Prix Acteurs du Libre 2021" for best open-source strategy.
- **Product Management Specialist/Teacher at ESD - École Supérieure du Digital** (2020 – 2021)
  Teacher of Product Management thinking/framework || Acculturation for the next generation digital workers, debunked usual traps, best practices
  \* Teaching, coaching, and mentoring on Product Management/Ownership and Entrepreneurship
  \* Mix/hybrid of theory and practice
  \* Crossover between Lean Startup, Agile, Design Thinking
  \* Business week facilitation
  \* Students evaluation
- **Co-founder, CEO, CPO at Nayego** (2018 – 2020)
  Founder of Nayego, innovator || Failed to sell & raise, successful acclaimed UX innovation, built a solid image  Nayego team chat is open, structured, and intelligent, on-premise and as B2B SaaS.
  
  Today, Team Chats operate in closed silos or walled gardens, thus collaboration with partners, customers and providers is a real pain.
  
  Moreover, Team Chats are messy and chaotic, consequently the important content is drown in the noise, and finding content is a headache.
  
  Team Chats are overloaded with notifications, so your day of work is made of dozens of interruptions, you are much less productive.
  
  Nayego facilitates teams collaboration by providing an open, structured, and intelligent solution. Nayego is delivered via SaaS, leveraging open source and open standards, in a durable and sustainable way. https://www.nayego.net  Outcome: Co-founded B2B SaaS open-source team chat. UX innovations received consistent industry acclaim. Setup oan end-to-end innovation machine. Selected for Startup Leadership Program (SLP), a globally competitive accelerator. Built end-to-end product, team, and ecosystem from zero.
- **First Product Manager at INWIBE** (2018 – 2018)
  Turning strategy into MVP || Matured the product
  \* Delivering the co-founders a path to a viable and scalable product
  \* Strategy and tactics co-creation
  \* Startup advisory
  \* Incubator/accelerator contributor
  \* Roadmapping and delivery, in coordination with developers and designers
- **First Product Owner/Manager for MongooseIM at Erlang Solutions Ltd.** (2015 – 2018)
  Turning software into viable platform || Almost x2 in consulting income, setup agile & product culture, bridged tech, sales & marketing  Product Owner for MongooseIM  MongooseIM is a mobile/desktop, real-time messaging platform that scales, fit for innovative chat apps makers. Made by Erlang Solutions.
  
  Major roles:
  \* Product Owner of cross disciplinary team
  \* Product Management Framework builder
  \* Product lead and strategist
  \* Thought leader
  \* Tech forecast
  \* Agile, Lean Startup, Design Thinking practictioner
  \* Enabler for Marketing and Sales
  \* Servant leader and facilitator for agile & product transformation
  \* Growth Hacking and Lead Generation
  \* Public speaker
  \* Business analyst
  \* Meetups organisation
  \* Community building
  \* User research
  \* Innovation
  \* Strategy  Outcome: Established the company's first product management function. Nearly doubled consulting revenue attributable to MongooseIM. Led a cross-functional team across Paris, Krakow, and London. Founder later credited this work as having "changed the company forever". Shareholder wanted to spinoff to a recurring revenue, B2B SaaS model.
- **Project and Product Manager at ProcessOne** (2009 – 2012)
  Managed projects (100+ k€) and products (300k+ consumer users) in direct relationship with customers and partners, with an international team of 10+ telecommuters/teleworkers, all experts in erlang, XMPP, web and mobile technologies.
  \* Roles: customer followup, consulting, solution design, architecture, planning, tech specs, testing, agile (scrum, kanban), integration, QA, development support, operations, hosting
  \* Technologies: XMPP/Jabber, Web, Mobile (Android, iOS, webOS), Amazon EC2/S3/RDS, NOSQL, home automation, internet of things, M2M
  \* Companies: Apollo Group, Orange Vallée, IMA Téléassistance, Acer, VZ Netzwerke, Kodak
- **FLOSS (free/libre/opensource software) engineer/architect/technologist at Capgemini** (2008 – 2009)
  Consultancy and architecture on opensource/free software, inside big companies and public administrations IT.
  \* Roles: consultant, technical expert, tech forecaster
  \* Technologies: XMPP/Jabber, virtualisation, packaging, email servers, supervision, relational database
  \* Companies: Treasury, Ministry of Justice, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
- **Opensource consultant and architect at Atos Origin - Open Source Center** (2007 – 2008)
  Consultancy and architecture on opensource/free software, inside big companies and public administrations IT.
  \* Roles: consultant, technical expert, program management, change management, integration, technology decision support
  \* Technologies: integrated development services (forges), industrialisation, QSOS
  \* Companies: EDF, Sagem
- **Linux/Unix system engineer at Open Wide** (2004 – 2007)
  Systems administration within big companies and public administrations IT.
  \* Roles: sysadmin, technical expert, knowledge management, norms and reference procedures, integration, tech forecast
  \* Technologies: Linux/Unix, monitoring, storage, wiki, large NUMA architecture, ticket management, monitoring, virtualisation
  \* Companies: CNP, Treasury  Open Wide acquired by Smile.
- **Oracle DBA at Univers Informatique** (1999 – 2003)
  Oracle DBA within big companies and public administrations IT.
  \* Roles: DBA, technical expert, development support, audit, knowledge management
  \* Technologies: Oracle RDBMS, Linux/Unix, DSS, datawarehouse, datamart
  \* Companies: CAT, FCR, COFRATEL, Sita  Univers Informatique acquired by Micropole

## Education

- **Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Toulouse** — Engineer diploma (1996 – 1999)
- **IUT de Cachan** — DUT

## Skills

- Business Strategy
- Writing
- Sales Presentations
- Body Language
- Elevator Pitches
- Storytelling
- Open-Source Software
- Rapid Prototyping
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Creativity Skills
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation Management
- XMPP
- Jabber
- Free Software
- FLOSS
- Open Source
- Open Source Software
- Open Source Integration
- Software Project Management
- Project Delivery
- Product Management
- Consultancy
- Change Management
- Technical Support
- Operations Management
- Technology forecasting
- Organizational Analysis
- Test Management
- Android
- iOS
- Interoperability
- Public Speaking
- Integration
- PHP
- Solution Architecture
- Git
- Virtualization
- System Administration
- VoIP
- PostgreSQL
- Web Applications
- Lean Software Development
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Consulting
- Lean Thinking
- Lean Startup
- MongooseIM
- Agile Methodologies
- Product Strategy
- Product Innovation
- Product Ownership
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Product Launch
- Agile
- Design Thinking

## Certifications

- YC Startup School — Y Combinator

## Projects

- **Lean Storytelling: Deliver Your Products and Services Story Efficiently**
  A lightweight, battle-tested canvas to help business and product professionals craft and deliver compelling narratives — in as little as one minute.

Born from real-world experience inside multicultural, cross-functional, transdisciplinary product teams, Lean Storytelling (originally "TopSol Playbook") addresses a universal pain: marketing, sales, tech, and leadership all speak different languages about the same product. The result is misalignment, confusion, and thus missed opportunities.

The method provides a structured canvas — built progressively from three core blocks (Target, Problem, Solution) to a full story with Context, Empathy, Consequences, Benefits, and Why — enabling anyone to shape a clear, convincing story for customers, investors, and internal stakeholders.

Inspired by Lean Canvas (Ash Maurya), the Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell), and The Golden Circle (Simon Sinek), it is deliberately minimalistic: simple to understand, difficult to master.

Outcome: Teams report 60% faster alignment, replacing 20-slide decks with a single canvas, and leaving workshops with a real, ready-to-deliver story.

## Volunteering

- Product Coach at None
- Product Mentor at Unspecified Startup Studio
- Mentor at Startup Leadership Program
- Membre du Conseil d'Administration at Startup Leadership Program
- Fellow SLP 2019 at Startup Leadership Program
- Membre du Conseil d'Administration at LinuxFr.org
- Vice President at LinuxFr.org
- President at LinuxFr.org
- Leading writer at LinuxFr.org
- Lean Startup: practitioner, promoter, evangelist at Lean Startup Experience
- Member of the Board of Directors at XMPP Standards Foundation
- Board of Directors at XMPP Standards Foundation

## Languages

- English (full_professional)
- German (elementary)