Who is Contee?

For now, Contee is me: Alexandre Quach. Here is where I come from, and why I created this publisher.

Portrait of Alexandre Quach, founder of Contee

Where I come from

I am an engineer, a graduate of ENSTA ParisTech. I spent some fifteen years between digital transformation and critical systems, at Thales, BNP Paribas, GRDF, Amadeus and France Télévisions.

There I supported programmes and the set-up of a DevOps organisation, trained many people as an agile coach in a software factory, held the roles of Product Owner and then coach on nationwide consumer products, and worked on the global roll-out of a product.

This path is mine: it is neither a list of Contee references nor an endorsement by those organisations. It only explains where my convictions come from.

What I took from it

Working with the real company

Budget cycles, silos, diverging interests, rules sometimes in tension: framing and adoption start from the organisation as it actually works.

After delivery, adoption

The hardest part starts after delivery: preparing the roles, equipping the people who will bring the use to life, gathering feedback.

The right problem first

Automating a misunderstood situation mostly speeds up the mistake. Understanding with the people who live it comes before the code.

Why a software publisher

I sell products: your teams receive them, understand them and can evolve them without me; the support aims at their autonomy.

I have taken certificate programmes at MIT Sloan Executive Education, Stanford and Harvard. I show what can be verified: what is built, how it is controlled, what is not controlled yet; and, where relevant, I seek verification by third parties.

Generative AI changes the way software is produced. It makes possible a factory that every organisation can own; it also demands walls, so that speed is not paid for in reliability. Contee exists to build both.

My commitments

  • Member of CLUSIF, AFCDP, IASEAI and IAPP.
  • Specialised in the secure integration of artificial intelligence in enterprise environments.

Legally, Contee is carried by AQ INVESTISSEMENTS, a French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) based in Paris.

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Want to talk about a situation, a project, or simply about how to produce with AI? Write to me.