The Galaxy

Julien Cyr — Founder, intrapreneur, executive. I think in systems, I build for humans.
Skills — Five ways of creating value, woven together. None stands alone: the combination is the profile.
Strategy — Deciding where to play and how to win — brand portfolio, governance, positioning, build vs buy. Always instrumented: a strategy without data is an opinion.
Tech — The original skill, never let go: infrastructure, networks, cloud, APIs, AI. I read architecture diagrams before slides — and still ship code to production.
Operations — Keeping the machine running, every day: processes, systems, invoicing, compliance, multi-site. Operational excellence as a product of design, not effort.
Marketing & Growth — Acquisition and positioning in a saturated market: education brands, admission funnels, pricing, competitive benchmarking. Marketing treated as a measurable system, not as creative work.
Communication — Carrying the voice: media, conferences, executive communication, employer brand. Talking AI to HR leaders and pedagogy to engineers — translation as a discipline.
Journey — Twenty years across four worlds: security and infrastructure, consulting, international media, then education at group scale. Each stage fed the next.
SUPINFO — Master of Science alongside the first companies. Already on both sides of the classroom: Campus Lab Manager and teaching assistant across all French campuses.
Intrinsec — Security and infrastructure — the technical foundations of the journey, under the demands of a cybersecurity pure player.
Kurt Salmon — Consulting: learning to structure a problem, frame a transformation and talk to the executive committee — reflexes that still serve every day.
IHT / The New York Times — The IT of an international newspaper: daily production, absolute continuity — the paper ships every day, no matter what.
Cloud Temple — French sovereign cloud: technical pre-sales and bid management on complex deals, and co-piloting the operational opening of the Tunis subsidiary — local infrastructure and site deployed from scratch.
Holberton — First France as CEO since 2015, then a global CIO role during international hyper-growth: a project-based software engineering school whose graduates are hired by the world's best companies.
Founding team — Day 0 in Silicon Valley: technological vision, technical backbone, first San Francisco campus.
International deployment — Campuses launched in the USA, Latin America and Africa — repeatable playbooks.
Global operations — Worldwide IT/IS, security, 24/7 support, data-driven steering.
OS of Education — The white-label offering launched as a new business line — P&L in hand.
Innovation — Chief Innovation Officer: product, growth, retention — fully remote.
Actual group — Actual Campus — Leading the education branch of a €1.5B group at executive-committee level: 15+ brands, 5 networks, 17 campuses. Multi-brand transformation as a daily playground.
ESUP — Business schools — one of the group's networks.
iconoClass — New-generation sales school.
Qwally — Remote vocational programs.
Global Open Campus — Western-France campus network, integrated in 2026.
Infrastructure & Networks — Twenty years of systems designed, operated, migrated — on-prem, private and public cloud. I know what infrastructure costs because I've built it.
Public & private cloud — Architecture, migration and operation of IaaS environments — from sovereign datacenter to hyperscale cloud.
Networks & security — Network design, interconnections, perimeter security and segmentation. The first playground — since the childhood bedroom.
On-prem & datacenter — Server rooms, virtualization, storage, business continuity. The physical world behind the cloud.
IaaS — Infrastructure as a Service — sizing, costs, reversibility.
High availability — BCP/DRP, zero-downtime architectures for critical sectors.
Virtualization — Hypervisors, consolidation, fleet migrations.
Security — Defense in depth, access management, compliance.
Active Directory — The first one, deployed at 12. You know what that means.
Tech Stack — My personal stack runs entire organizations: APIs, AI agents, end-to-end automation — from contract to invoice.
AI agents — Agents in production: analysis, writing, financial reconciliation, workflow orchestration. AI as a colleague, not a gadget.
No-code / low-code stack — Visual databases, orchestration, integrations — startup execution speed inside established organizations.
Integrations & APIs — Connecting systems together: CRM, invoicing, signature, customer data. Batch, webhooks, REST.
Languages & Code — Code as a decision tool: scripts, APIs, prototypes. Not a full-time developer — an executive who codes, which changes everything in arbitrations.
Python — Scripts, data, automation.
JavaScript / TS — Front, integrations, products.
SQL — Querying and data modeling.
Bash / Shell — The infra heritage, still active.
PowerShell — The Microsoft era — AD, Exchange, Lync industrialized.
Business tools — The complete tooling of a modern organization, chosen and integrated end to end — from telephony to accounting, from document to signature.
Sage — Accounting and management interfaces.
Docupilot — Automated document generation.
AirCall — Cloud telephony integrated with the CRM.
Cursor — AI-assisted development, daily.
Claude / LLMs — Agents, RAG, cognitive automation.
Financial reconciliation — Balances, transfers, invoices: reconciled by agents, validated by humans.
Airtable — Data backbone of several organizations.
Make — Orchestration of complex scenarios.
Zapier — Cross-cutting automations.
Notion — Living documentation and knowledge bases.
Stripe — Invoicing, cash balance, reconciliation at scale.
Supabase — Product backend — auth, data, realtime.
Vercel — Continuous deployment of the products.
Education APIs — Ypareo, Oscar, Hyperplanning — the schools' systems wired into reporting.
juliencyr.fr — This site: manifesto, galaxy, console — designed and built with an AI pair.
Leadership & Strategy — CEO for over a decade, executive committee member, P&L in hand. Multi-site teams, thousands of end users.
Executive leadership — Over a decade of CEO mandates: growth, disruptive pedagogy, multi-campus teams, results.
COMEX & governance — Group governance, organizational design, portfolio arbitration at executive level.
Multi-brand transformation — 15+ brands, 5 networks, 17 campuses: rationalization, unified systems, the organization treated like a product.
P&L — Full economic stewardship.
Unified CRM — Convergence of multi-brand commercial systems.
M&A — Acquisitions and integrations in service of portfolio coherence.
Ventures — I've started companies at every stage of my life. Some grew, others taught me. Two new ones are in orbit.
Convergent Galaxy — Independent tech consultancy founded at 20, alongside studies. Networks, systems and VoIP for businesses, plus training in private schools.
Time2Dream — Events in places where events aren't supposed to be possible. Elevating each one through technique — the visual and sound experience.
Culture Tech — A non-profit for technical production in live entertainment. Ballet, opera, concerts, fashion shows — designed and operated end to end.
Dragonfly — Intrapreneurship: innovating with the constraints of a large group and the impatience of a founder.
ownward — Under construction. The mystery is working in its favor.
edorma — Under construction. Where legacy ERPs carry twenty years of technical debt, we rebuild — faster, cheaper, better.
Offstage — The rest of the time: the backstage of live entertainment, contemporary art, the geographies crossed.
Backstage & Live — Sound, light, video, automation — in production and live. A concert is a real-time system where none of it can show. The finest engineering school I know.
Contemporary art — Collector. Art teaches me what tech forgets: that something can be essential without being useful.
Geographies — Grew up in France. Lived in San Francisco, in Spain. Based in Basel — between three borders.
Sound — Consoles, PA systems, live mixing.
Light — Desks, DMX, lighting design.
Video — Video control, mapping, media servers.
Automation — Rigging, cues, timecode.