Neil Akshay Iyer

Founder & CEO at Cobalt Cloud · D2C food brands · supply chain, consumer brands

Cobalt Cloud

Lyon, France · CET (UTC+1)

11+ years experience

École Polytechnique

English, French

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Overview

Founder & CEO of Cobalt Cloud, working on D2C food brands. Took Cobalt Cloud from zero to $9 million ARR. Grew the team to 73 people across 4 countries. Before that: Booking.com and Just Eat Takeaway. Most at home with consumer brands and sales. I play football every Sunday.

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consumer brandssalessupply chainmarketing

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for inventory forecasting for logistics fleets

The idea: Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for inventory forecasting for logistics fleets
Stage: Early revenue
I bring: 8 years in D2C food brands
Looking for: Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Lyon or remote

I bring 21 years of D2C food brands (currently Cobalt Cloud). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

Lyon, Francemarketingconsumer brandssales

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Experience

Founder & CEO
Nov 2025 - Present
Cobalt Cloud · 11 mo · Full-time · Lyon, France
- Took Cobalt Cloud from zero to $3 million ARR.
- Signed 196 paying customers, 4 of them enterprises.
Principal Engineer
Jun 2023 - Nov 2025
Booking.com · 2 yr 5 mo · Contract · Lyon, France
- Backed 10 founders at pre-seed and seed.
Senior Backend Engineer
Dec 2019 - Jun 2023
Just Eat Takeaway · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lyon, France
- Reduced cloud spend on public API by 29% in two quarters.
- Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 675ms to 85ms.
Senior Engineering Manager
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Zalando · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lyon, France
- Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
Staff ML Engineer
Aug 2015 - Feb 2018
Supercell · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Lyon, France
- Taught SQL to 32 non-analysts.
- Built the product analytics models now used in 5 product decisions a quarter.

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Education

École Polytechnique
Ingénieur, Economics
2001 - 2005

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