Experience

Syroco

• France
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Software and Data Engineering

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France Syroco is a scientific and technical laboratory that generates innovation through pioneering achievements. The solutions and applications developed by Syroco enable players in the transportation and energy sectors to meet the economic and environmental challenges they face.



Ornikar

• Consumer Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Head of Engineering - Insurance

  • Mar 2021 - Jul 2022

  Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France Responsible for the tech team in charge of the brand new motor-insurance business unit ** Hiring ** Scaled the team from 2 to 12 developers, splitted in three squads, with different expertise areas (frontend/backend/fullstack/mobile), seniorities and locations (onsite & full-remote). Reinforced by external contractors to handle specific projects when necessary. Built the hiring and onboarding processes, around three pillars: people, tech and business ** Culture & processes… Show more Responsible for the tech team in charge of the brand new motor-insurance business unit ** Hiring ** Scaled the team from 2 to 12 developers, splitted in three squads, with different expertise areas (frontend/backend/fullstack/mobile), seniorities and locations (onsite & full-remote). Reinforced by external contractors to handle specific projects when necessary. Built the hiring and onboarding processes, around three pillars: people, tech and business ** Culture & processes ** Setup good engineering practices (documentation, tests strategy ,bug & incident processes around "Fail, learn, succeed" value, monitoring, alerting, code quality, progressive rollout, feature flags,...) Setup "You build it, you run it" philosophy Remote-first (asynchronous and written communication, cohesive rituals, onsite events,...) Established a continuous global tech culture improvement around "Share more, learn more" value Organize the workflow to collaborate efficiently with designers, QA, product manager, data analyst and SRE ** People management ** Mentored and coached team members, drove regular 1/1, defined individual quaterly objectives, suggested and supported career evolutions, managed raises and team budget Maintain an healthy environment and care about team members happiness ** Business & Product ** Work closely with product team to build and deliver the roadmap Responsible for milestones and deadlines definitions and achievements Warn and prevent tech limitations from impacting customer satisfaction and business health Continuously reassess trade-off regarding speed and quality of the eng. team following business needs and product maturity ** Tech stack ** Typescript, React JS/ React Native, NodeJS, NestJS, BullMQ, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sentry, Flagship, Github, CircleCI Full-remote from Annecy Show less



BlaBlaCar

• France
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Backend lead on BlaBlaCar Daily

  • May 2018 - Mar 2021

  Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France BlaBlaCar Daily is the commute-dedicated application of BlaBlaCar Developed very different product features such as chat, reversed matching, referral program, internationalization, countries expansion, Google Maps Mobile integration, and payment. Scaled the infra and backend to support up to 20x more traffic in 18 months following DevOps philosophy: "You build it, you run it". Part of the on-call rotation. Collaborated closely with mobile lead, product and business managers… Show more BlaBlaCar Daily is the commute-dedicated application of BlaBlaCar Developed very different product features such as chat, reversed matching, referral program, internationalization, countries expansion, Google Maps Mobile integration, and payment. Scaled the infra and backend to support up to 20x more traffic in 18 months following DevOps philosophy: "You build it, you run it". Part of the on-call rotation. Collaborated closely with mobile lead, product and business managers to build a roadmap, help define product & tech specs, setup good engineering practices and ensure backend engineering execution of the roadmap under agreed timeline. Technical environment: Python 3.6, Flask, ReactJS, Spring Boot 2, Java 10, PostgreSQL (RDS) + PostGis, ElasticSearch, Redis (ElastiCache), SQS, S3, Kafka. Show less



Less (Acquired by Blablacar in 2018)

• France
• Truck Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Backend engineer

  • Feb 2017 - May 2018

  Région de Paris, France Less was a real-time ride-sharing application launched in Paris area and acquired by BlaBlaCar in May, 2018 Contributed to the whole adventure of this company, including take-off, pivots, renaming, and acquisition. Worked on different parts of the backend: API, geolocation, maps issues, real-time messaging, payment and backoffice. DevOps philosophy: worked on infra, deployment, tooling. Part of the on-call rotation. Technical environment: C#, TypeScript, .Net Core… Show more Less was a real-time ride-sharing application launched in Paris area and acquired by BlaBlaCar in May, 2018 Contributed to the whole adventure of this company, including take-off, pivots, renaming, and acquisition. Worked on different parts of the backend: API, geolocation, maps issues, real-time messaging, payment and backoffice. DevOps philosophy: worked on infra, deployment, tooling. Part of the on-call rotation. Technical environment: C#, TypeScript, .Net Core, Entity Framework Core, MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), DynamoDB, SQS, S3, Swagger. Show less



Groupe STADLINE by XPLOR

• France
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Backend engineer

  • Mar 2015 - Jan 2017

  Paris Resamania is a SAAS gym management software. Developed an internal CRM from scratch, extracted monolithic modules in micro services (messaging, file storage, SSO, ...), managed migration from SVN to GIT, and contributed to front-end development with Sencha EXT JS. Coached junior developpers. Technical environment: Java 7, ExtJS, REST API, PostgreSQL, JBoss, Quartz, DWR, Spring Boot, Liquibase, SVN, GIT, Jenkins, JUnit.



SNCF Connect & Tech

• France
• Travel Arrangements
• 700 & Above Employee

• ScrumMaster

  • Dec 2014 - Mar 2015

  Paris Oui.sncf is a subsidiary of SNCF selling passes and point-to-point tickets for rail travel around Europe Worked in the routing and hourly data service team, a strategic project at the heart of the SNCF (important SLA and volumetry). Interfaced with the Product Owner (25% of my time) and contributed to technical development (75%) while being responsible for Scrum animation in a team of 8 people. Contributed both on the back-end side (Oracle DBD, ODI ETL, bash / perl… Show more Oui.sncf is a subsidiary of SNCF selling passes and point-to-point tickets for rail travel around Europe Worked in the routing and hourly data service team, a strategic project at the heart of the SNCF (important SLA and volumetry). Interfaced with the Product Owner (25% of my time) and contributed to technical development (75%) while being responsible for Scrum animation in a team of 8 people. Contributed both on the back-end side (Oracle DBD, ODI ETL, bash / perl scripting, Hafas engine, Java components) and on the front-end one (REST and SOAP web services, Tomcat servers, MySQL). Show less



MUNIC

• France
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Frontend development manager

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2014

  Villejuif Munic is a devices & Artificial Intelligence platform for car data Led a team of 5 people: define team objectives and planning, recruitment assistance, report to VP engineering. Set up Agile methodology (XP): Stand-up, sprints, pair programming, code review, ... Developed connected applications for professionnal and consumer GPS devices (navigation, multiple POI engine, bluetooth suite, speed camera warner, ...). Developed the build system, established a nightly… Show more Munic is a devices & Artificial Intelligence platform for car data Led a team of 5 people: define team objectives and planning, recruitment assistance, report to VP engineering. Set up Agile methodology (XP): Stand-up, sprints, pair programming, code review, ... Developed connected applications for professionnal and consumer GPS devices (navigation, multiple POI engine, bluetooth suite, speed camera warner, ...). Developed the build system, established a nightly build, developed code generators to enhance the team effectiveness and integrated unit testing. Show less