I am a software entrepreneur passionate about product development, team building and lean startups. Specialties: - SaaS - Information processing (Search engines, Text mining, Semantic analysis, Big data) - Mobile development - Team empowerment

Co-founder & CEO @ Algolia is a Search as a Service offer. We put world-class Search in the hands of every developer. Search among infinite attributes from a single searchbox, at light speed. Algolia offers out-of-the-box support for every language, is typo-tolerant, provides instant results in milliseconds, and allows easy ranking configuration for your data set. You can integrate in minutes and take immediate advantage of our 99.99% SLA. From September 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Paris Area, FranceVP R&D @ I defined and led the product strategy of the company in an international and very competitive market. I led a major reorganisation of the R&D department to favor team empowerment and innovation. I managed the R&D teams (60 people) and represented Exalead before Dassault Systèmes global R&D direction (shareholder). From April 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 6 months) ParisDirector, Product Management @ From August 2010 to April 2011 (9 months) CTO @ Technology strategy definition and implementation Management of the R&D team (10 people) Project management Software design Technology partnerships and pre-sales From February 2007 to July 2010 (3 years 6 months) Chief Research and Development Officer @ Enactment of technology strategy Management of the R&D team (10 people) Software design and implementation From February 2006 to January 2007 (1 year) R&D Software Developer @ Research on complex information modelling From January 2001 to January 2006 (5 years 1 month) Visiting Researcher @ Research on image search engines From July 1999 to December 2000 (1 year 6 months)

Ph.D. @ Université de Nantes From 2001 to 2005 M.S. @ ESIEA - Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique From 1994 to 1999 Nicolas Dessaigne is skilled in: Algolia, Entrepreneurship, Search, SaaS, Text Mining, Product Management, Big Data, Software Design, Information Retrieval, Java, Enterprise Search, Strategic Thinking, Mobile Applications, Natural Language..., Semantic Web, Lean Startup, Lucene, Solr, Software Development, Software Engineering, NoSQL, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies, Open Source, iOS, Artificial Intelligence, Android, Information Extraction