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Bernard Pratz

@bernardpratz

Product engineer and CTO at Modus Create, growing its Atlassian Marketplace SaaS portfolio and leading its migration to Forge.

France

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for my next great project, whether it’s to bootstrap or to push through the next milestone.

At Modus Create, I took over leadership of the Product Studio, an Atlassian Marketplace SaaS unit. I’m responsible for product strategy, engineering, operations, and P&L, and have driven 20% year-over-year revenue growth while rebuilding the P&L and rationalizing operating costs.

At Zeloce, I architected a multitenant SaaS platform for construction transport management that helped save about 6% of carbon footprint and budget on construction projects. I also built a delivery marketplace that managed 100,000 deliveries over three years with 400 drivers, covering more than 40% of France’s territory.

At Ynstant, I refactored the carpooling product to address scale and latency challenges as it reached over 1 million monthly active users. I’m looking for my next great project, whether that means bootstrapping or pushing through the next milestone.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Director of the Product Studio

Current

Modus Create

Sep 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Leads the Product Studio, an Atlassian Marketplace SaaS unit with apps used by 3,600+ companies and 1.44 million paid seats. Responsible for product strategy, engineering, operations, and P&L, achieving 20% revenue growth and 1.6x budgeted margin in 12 months.

Product Strategy P&L management SaaS Growth Atlassian Marketplace Cloud Native AI Assisted Engineering Lean Management Shape Up ISO 27001 SOC2

Current

Product Engineer, fractional CTO

Current

BWRP Engineering

Jan 2012 - Present (14 years 9 months)

Provides software engineering, consulting, training, and teaching services. Develops firmware for smart devices and offers consulting.

Software Engineering Consulting Training Firmware Development

Principal Engineer

Ynstant

Jul 2024 - Jul 2025 (1 year)

Built a carpooling mobile app that reached over 1M MAU and became #1 in the travel section on the app store for 45 days. Refactored the product to tackle scale challenges, fixed architecture issues, and mentored junior developers.

Mobile Application Developer Architecture Refactoring Performance Optimization Mentorship Cost Optimization

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Orus

Feb 2024 - Jul 2024 (5 months)

Collaborated in designing and implementing access control and the B2B platform interface. Organized work towards a clean design system and mentored junior developers.

Access Control B2B Platforms Design Systems Mentorship

CTO, Partner

Zeloce

Jul 2017 - Feb 2024 (6 years 7 months)

Architected a multitenant SaaS platform for construction transport and logistics, saving about 6% of carbon footprint and budget. Led the product team to create a single SaaS application with multiple specialized frontends, and built a marketplace managing 100k deliveries over 3 years.

SaaS architecture Multi tenancy Elixir Phoenix GraphQL React React Native Ruby on Rails Clever Cloud GitLab CI CD Design Systems Figma

Founder & Partner

What The Flower

Jul 2017 - Jan 2024 (6 years 6 months)

Handled administrative, accounting, and infrastructure tasks, and built the online shop.

Administration Accounting Infrastructure Ecommerce

VP of Engineering at BotObjects Ltd

3D Systems Corporation

Aug 2013 - Apr 2016 (2 years 8 months)

Led engineering management, team coordination, and project planning for product firmware, electronics, and electromechanical integration. Oversaw safety and certification (IEC/EMC) and contributed to early-stage development in Qt-based desktop software and firmware.

Engineering Management Firmware Development Electronics Electromechanical Assembly and Systems Integration Supply Chain IEC EMC Qt Framework Project Management

Lead Engineer at CKAB

Bearstech

Apr 2010 - Feb 2013 (2 years 10 months)

Developed and managed R&D projects including OSSMOSE, pollux'nz city, missing.net, makerbot, and B12:0. Bootstrapped the hackable:Devices project and launched the CKAB firm.

R&D Open Source Firmware Project Management Hackable Devices