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Beyond the Code: Managing Complexity & Empowering Developers with Olivier Bonsignour, VP of Product Development at CAST

Software complexity isn’t slowing down — and neither can development teams.

In this episode of CXO Secrets, David McClelland is joined by Olivier Bonsignour, Vice President for Product Development at CAST, to explore the rising role of AI and software intelligence in managing sprawling codebases and accelerating business demands. Olivier explains how teams can stay productive, reduce technical debt, and maintain legacy systems while using AI for deeper understanding, not just code generation.

They also discuss balancing human expertise with machine assistance, the evolving skills of today’s engineers, and why humility and continuous learning remain critical for technology leaders.

A must-listen for CTOs, engineering leaders, and software professionals seeking to turn complexity into clarity and build smarter, AI-enabled development practices.

CAST

Businesses move faster using CAST technology to understand, improve, and transform their software. Through semantic analysis of source code, CAST produces 3D maps and dashboards to navigate inside individual applications and across entire portfolios. This intelligence empowers executives and technology leaders to steer, speed, and report on initiatives such as technical debt, modernization, and cloud. It is also the best way to ground LLMs for more accurate understanding of large and multi stack code bases. As the pioneer of the software intelligence field, CAST is trusted by the world’s leading companies and governments, their consultancies and cloud providers. See it all castsoftware.com.

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Olivier Bonsignour
VP of Product Development
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Olivier Bonsignour leads Research & Development and Product Management at CAST, driving innovation in software analysis and measurement technologies. A former CIO of the French Ministry of Defense’s advanced research division (DRET/DGA), he is an expert in software analysis and quality measurement. Co-author of The Economics of Software Quality (Addison-Wesley, 2011), Olivier holds engineering and computer science degrees from INSA Lyon and an executive Master’s in Management from IAE Aix-en-Provence.

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