// Fractional CTO & Game Director

Alexis
Montoro

Tech & Product Leader — Gaming × AI × Startups

10+ years building teams, shipping products, and scaling tech — from AA game studios to B2B SaaS. I lead distributed teams across 4 time zones, ship games on Steam, and help startups move fast with AI-powered workflows.

📍 Lyon, France → Open to SF Bay Area relocation
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Pragmatic builder,
inspiring leader

I founded and led IMV Studio to create Seven Cities — a futuristic action RPG inspired by Diablo. From creative vision to Steam launch, I managed a distributed team of 15 across France, US, Canada, and Taiwan.

I'm also a Claude power user — 200+ hours building with Claude Code, designing AI-powered developer workflows, and implementing AI strategy for startups in the energy sector.

As a Fractional CTO, I help startups scale their tech, structure their teams, and ship real value fast.

10+
Years of XP
15+
Team members led
4
Time zones managed
🎮
Game Development
Unity HDRP, C#, AA production pipelines, Steam launches
🚀
Startup Advisory
Architecture, DevOps, product-market fit, team scaling
🤖
AI Integration
Claude workflows, MCP tools, AI-powered automation
Expertise

What I bring to your team

Tech Leadership

Building and scaling engineering teams. Hiring, mentoring, 1:1s, and creating a culture where people ship great work.

Team Building Agile/Scrum Remote Management Hiring
🎯

Product Strategy

From pitch deck to product-market fit. Roadmaps, metrics, user feedback loops, and hard prioritization calls.

Roadmapping KPIs User Research PMF
🔧

Architecture & DevOps

Scalable systems, microservices, CI/CD. From legacy monoliths to cloud-native on Kubernetes.

GCP/K8s Docker CI/CD REST APIs
Projects

Selected work

Fractional CTO — B2B SaaS

Startup Advisory

Tech stack audits, DevOps restructuring, mentoring mixed teams, scalable architecture, and guiding founders to PMF.

AI Strategy — Energy Sector

Volterres

Leading AI implementation with Claude. Designing workflows from ClickUp tickets to automated PRs via Claude Code.

Journey

Career highlights

2025 – Present
CTO (Part-time)
Volterres — Energy Sector
AI strategy implementation, Claude integration, developer workflow automation.
2020 – Present
CEO & Founder
IMV Studio — Game Development
Founded studio, shipped 2 games on Steam. 15 contributors, 4 time zones, €450K+ budget.
2022 – Present
Fractional CTO
Multiple Startups
Tech audits, DevOps, architecture, team mentoring for early-stage B2B SaaS.
2018
CTO
Yuco — Paris
Led 15 engineers. Migrated monolith to microservices. Deployed on GCP/Kubernetes with CI/CD.
2016 – 2017
Technical Manager
AKKA Digital Solution
Scaled team from 1 to 7. Projects for Airbus Defense & Space, Thales. Distributed team across US/Asia.
Contact

Let's build together

Looking for a pragmatic CTO to scale your tech or team? I'm available for freelance missions (2-3 days/week) and open to full-time opportunities in SF Bay Area.

amontoro@free.fr