Bernard Pratz

Managed the product studio: a team of 15 people across 3 continents and 5 time zones. Reorganized the team and revamped processes.

Building the best carpooling mobile app

• Refactoring the product to tackle scale challenges, killing the latency of the product

• Fixed code architecture issues and restructured the code base

• Helped reorganize and tailor the team's processes to find the sweet spot to be lean and structured

• Improving cost at scale

• Mentoring junior developers so they can step up their game

We build the technological tools to reinvent transport and logistics for the public works and construction sector.

Since 2020, we have been building the TMS (transport management system) for public works and construction. My role is to lead the product team to create a SaaS application with specialized frontends, namely an application for organizing roadworks, two others for organizing orders and dispatch, and an app for communicating with drivers.

We have implemented a design system, rapidly prototyped and tested designs with Figma, and implemented them in ReactJS/React-Native+Expo for rapid iteration.

On the backend, we use Elixir+Phoenix+Absinthe to abstract the DB, implement business logic, and expose the GraphQL API.

We use Clever-Cloud as PaaS, and gitlab for managing our CI/CD deployments with review apps.

From 2017 to 2020, Zeloce was a marketplace for van drivers to receive jobs from large retailers, to transport their large-format purchases from Ikea, Leroy Merlin, Électro Dépôt, Conforama… to their homes. The idea was to allow customers to have a van large enough within the hour to transport what wouldn't fit in their car trunk.

We had built the application in Ruby-on-Rails, using ruby-graphql to expose an API to our ReactJS frontends, and React-Native for the mobile app.