Olivier Poulard

Olivier is a change agent with over 20 years of global international leadership experience, combining all aspects of digital product development, technology management, software engineering, program management, and offshore outsourcing at scale. His passion for delivering better software has led him to reimagine how large, distributed offshore programs should be envisioned, organized, planned, contracted, and executed.

In the last 16 years, Olivier has led the development and release to production of a wide array of complex, mission-critical, distributed IT systems with more than 2,100 talented software engineers and technologists from Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ukraine, Russia, and India.

Bilingual (English, French), Olivier has a Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering & Computer Science from a top national engineering school in France (ENSMA). He is a patent holder and the recipient of 3 major Agile awards. He has visited 43 countries on six continents and lived in Canada, France, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. He currently resides in the heart of Atlanta, GA. Olivier is a pilot and also flies RC helicopters.