Mathieu Olivares
Product & Solutions | ex-Founder
I build products and automation for industry, at the meeting point of domain knowledge, product, and AI.
01. About
For nearly ten years, I ran suppliers and critical processes in industry. That's where I learned to coordinate without authority, to make calls based on numbers, and to hold a plan in front of a management team that expects results.
Then I learned to code, and started building the tools I wish I'd had on the floor. Today I do both: I read a complex business need from the inside, because I've lived it, and I turn it into a product or an automation that actually runs.
A few proof points, because intent means little without results:
- ▹A product rollout shipped to 400 suppliers, 90% adoption.
- ▹A supplier scorecard process with its handling time cut by 75%.
- ▹The MVP of a B2B SaaS I designed and coded alone, after a dozen-plus user interviews, up to the call to stop, data in hand, rather than dig in.
What I'm after today: a role where industry, product, and AI meet. Building tools made for the field, that teams actually use.
02. My Expertise
I connect the business need, the product, and the tech to ship solutions that hold up in production. From discovery to a coded MVP, through to the automations that give industrial teams their time back.
Product, Tech & AI
Ops, Industry & Performance
Product & Strategy
Tech Projects 03.
Flagship Project
LINQA: SaaS for Industrial Supplier Management
Ten years wrestling with Excel files to track suppliers. Enough. I built the tool the industry was missing: a SaaS cockpit that pulls together quality, delivery, and risk data, and starts spotting problems before they blow up.
The Lab: Side Projects & Experiments
E-ink Dashboard
A screen on the wall. No flashy LEDs, no scrolling. Just the essentials: weather, calendar, home sensors, morning trains, displayed on e-ink like ink on paper. I built the aggregation backend, the control interface, and even the 3D-printed case. Been using it every day for two years.
Anti-Gaspi
Tired of tossing expired yogurts forgotten in the back of the fridge. So I built an app: scan the barcode, AI cleans up the product name so it's readable, and Home Assistant pings you before it hits the trash. All self-hosted in my homelab.
AI Agent
Three AI agents that work so I don't have to. The first schedules my bike rides by checking the weather. The second sends me a morning briefing from my Notion tasks. The third runs my smart home by voice. Everything goes through n8n, Telegram, and zero manual effort.
Wishlist
The classic family Christmas problem: everyone wants to give the same thing, nobody knows what to ask for. I built a secure app with role management, secret gift reservations, and even a togglable snowflake theme. My family actually uses it, and their feedback beat any formal user test.
Connected Pomodoro
A physical timer sitting on my desk. I press it, and my iPhone switches to focus mode on its own over Bluetooth. My Mac follows right behind. When the Pomodoro ends, everything goes back to normal. One gesture, zero distractions.
Connected Safe
A wooden safe. Decorative, useless. Perfect for a technical challenge. I modeled a gear mechanism in 3D, wired up a Raspberry Pi Zero with an NFC reader, and reverse-engineered the Apple HomeKey protocol. Result: the safe opens when I bring my Apple Watch close. Useless? Totally. Satisfying? Absolutely.