Hi, I'm Valentin Maillot 👋
I build products. For clients by day, and for myself by night. I'm Group Production Director at AREA 17, where I lead the global delivery practice across our Paris and New York agencies.
Over the past 12+ years I've led product, design, and engineering teams to ship high-value projects for the agency's clients, and grown our delivery team to 8 project managers across the two studios.
Here are some recent notable engagements I've been in charge of :
Here are some other of the agency's clients I or my team worked for recently :
I'm also the co-founder and CEO of esims.io, a side project I bootstrapped into the leading travel eSIM comparison platform. My role covers everything from product design and Next.js development to forming partnerships with eSIM providers and telecom operators worldwide.
esims.io now serves 1.5M+ users across 227+ countries, aggregating 45,000+ plans from 39 provider partners, with a 4.9/5 rating. We did $1M+ GMV in our first year.
On the agentic side, my co-founder and I are currently shipping LLM-driven content generation and partner-integration workflows, mostly by invoking Cursor agents to do the heavy lifting. It's easily the most fun we've had coding in years.
And more recently, as a new dad, I scratched my own itch and vibe-coded BabyTracker, a simple app to help parents cope with the challenging first weeks of parenting.