Dr. Nicolas Bonvin is the Chief Technology Officer of Taurus SA. He is an experienced, hands-on software and systems architect specializing in large-scale systems, cloud computing, security, and technology innovation. Prior to joining Taurus SA, Nicolas worked as an architect and lead developer in different-sized companies in the banking, telecom, and retail industries. As Lead Back-Office Architect of LeShop.ch, one of Europe's largest online grocery stores, Nicolas transformed and migrated a 15-year-old legacy system running 24x7x365 into a collection of modern cloud-native applications deployed on a fully automated infrastructure spanning multiple data centers. Nicolas has also been CTO of startups developing web platform and cloud storage solutions, and has spoken at leading database and distributed system conferences (ACM/IEEE) such as CCGRID, SC, ICDE, SOCC, and CLOUD.nnNicolas holds an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL and a PhD in Distributed Systems from EPFL (2011).