Nico is an IT leader from the South of France, focusing on Software Architecture, Technology Governance, Enterprise Architecture and Budget Management. His strong technical background (from application development to NoSQL DBA) added to his presentation skills (presenter at MongoDB World and RedHat Summit) play a key role in his job. In the past he released several native and hybrid mobile applications on the Apple and Play stores and started his own company in 2015 where he discovered the joy of working days and nights while trying to convince investors. Today he is working at Talarian as CTO. He provides consultancy support on his free time and is an expert in operational requirements and data stores (Memcached, Couchbase, MongoDB, Kafka, ZooKeeper).