Founder · Engineer · Paris ↔ San Francisco
I build products for a world where the user is an agent.
I'm Théodore Otzenberger, co-founder of Armature. I work at the edge of developer tools, observability and AI agents.
Current focusMaking software legible, reliable and useful to AI agents.
01 / NOW
02 / WORK
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Building where software meets the real world.
2026 — NOWArmature · YC P26Co-founderBuilding product analytics and evals for the AI agents that use software through MCPs, CLIs and connectors.2024 — 2026TsugaFounding EngineerBuilt petabyte-scale observability infrastructure for enterprise systems in customer cloud environments.2022 — 2024Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed Engineer · Technical LeadShipped data and software systems for complex, high-stakes operating environments.2021 — 2022TrackRCo-founder · CTOStarted a platform designed to help nonprofits trace funds and build donor trust.
Full professional history on LinkedIn 03 / WRITING
NOTES & EXPERIMENTS
Ideas are better when they can be inspected.
012026
AGENT EXPERIENCE
Launching Armature — Product Analytics for MCPs, Claude Connectors and ChatGPT Apps
Why product teams need to see the intent, reasoning and failures behind agent tool calls.
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AI · POLITICS
LLMs show political bias in a simulated polling experiment
A 2,000-persona panel aligned with INSEE margins tests how major models answer the same voting question.
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SYSTEMS
Garbage collectors: a brief history and a comparison of Go and Java
A practical look at memory management, collector design and observable performance.
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ENGINEERING
Rust vs. Python: performance insights from a simple backend task
A measured backend comparison across language, framework and API-client choices.
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