Pierre-Jean L'Hôte
I align your technology with your business strategy - and I can build it - so you can modernize fast, while staying sovereign and compliance-ready by design.
From the European Commission and Parliament to KPMG Luxembourg, first as external architect, then recruited as Acting CTO (1,900+ employees, all business lines), and now as founder of Etimtech. I advise CIOs and CTOs on IT, AI & Data strategy, and I build my own AI products. What I recommend, I can build.
Three Pillars
Every engagement activates at least two of these three pillars.
Modernize, Don't Just Digitize
AI, cloud, and automation are not ends in themselves. What matters: making organizations faster, smarter, and more efficient. Concrete outcomes, architecture patterns, and measurable gains.
- Concrete returns, not buzzwords
- Architecture patterns that deliver
- Legacy modernization with measurable impact
European Sovereignty = Competitive Advantage
Europe isn't 'behind' - it's building a framework that becomes an advantage. GDPR, AI Act, NIS2 are not obstacles - they're catalysts for responsible innovation.
- Compliance as a design pattern
- Sovereign architectures by default
- Regulatory mastery as differentiator
Practitioner, Not Theorist
I don't avoid problems, I confront them. Every recommendation is backed by proof: AI products in production, architectures deployed in regulated environments, measurable outcomes. Lean obsessed: automate by the third iteration, optimize before you recruit. Advisory that can't ship is advisory that guesses.
- 4 AI products shipped in-house
- Lean quality: -93% onboarding, -85% bugs in 4 months
- 5 hires in 4 years: optimize first, recruit second
Career Journey
Engineering Foundations
ESME Sudria, Paris
Engineering degree from ESME Sudria. Satellite image analysis with neural networks and GIS before AI was mainstream (CIRAD, 2004). Payment systems at BNP Paribas. First venture: Etimtech v1, a SaaS healthcare platform born from hands-on practice in medical IT.
Learned to speak both code and business.
The European Ecosystem
European Commission, Parliament, CGI, Luxair
Secure enterprise search for 10,000+ users and 10M+ classified documents at the European Commission. Consulting Director at CGI, fixed-price delivery for the European Parliament (translation tools, 200+ users, team of 8). IT Architect at Luxair.
The most regulated environments forge the best architectures.
IT Transformation at Scale
KPMG Luxembourg
Acting CTO across all business lines (Audit, Tax, Consulting, Central Services) under PSF/CSSF regulation. Built the architecture function from scratch: shadow IT eliminated, standards operational in 3 months. Hybrid cloud migration (300+ VMs), enterprise Data Platform, Citizen Dev program. GRC transformed from project bottleneck into pre-packaged enabler. Client onboarding cut from 4 weeks to 3 days. 2.2x delivery speed, -85% bugs in 4 months. 30+ professionals, 5 teams, 4 years.
Governance isn't bureaucracy, it's the architecture of speed.
Founder & CEO
Etimtech
Strategic CTO Advisory & AI Products. Building HirAgent and Sovr.ai. Backed by a curated network of independent specialists across the IT spectrum.
Every product proves the consulting isn't theoretical.
From Code tothe Boardroom
I debug a CI/CD pipeline in the morning and present the IT roadmap to the Executive Committee in the afternoon. This bridge between strategy and execution is my rarity on the market. CIOs identify with it. Boards finally understand that tech isn't a black box.
Strategic Advisory
CIO/CTO-level strategic guidance with deep understanding of enterprise technology, AI & Data challenges
Hands-on Builder
Doesn't just advise - builds and ships AI products in production, from conception to market
Regulated Environments
20+ years in regulated environments: from EU institutions (10,000+ users) to Acting CTO at a Big Four under PSF/CSSF (1,900+ employees)