Julien Poudade

Julien Poudade, PhD, serves as the Vice President of Engineering and Chief Security Officer at Wyplay since October 2014, overseeing the company's security measures and managing a team of up to 10 individuals. Prior to this, Julien held various roles at Pace from November 2009 to October 2014, including Software Development Manager, responsible for software development in Paris and managing a team of up to 30, as well as Principal Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Development Software Engineer, where responsibilities included maintaining the Pace Linux distribution and ensuring security compliance for software deliverables. Julien's academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science from Paris-Sud University, where research focused on Cognitive Sciences and Robotics, culminating in the publication of the thesis "Lexical emergency in a population of autonomous agents: by the action, the perception and the sensorimotor contingency."