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Description

I help tech teams truly deliver. Not do "theoretical" agility.

VP Engineering with 20 years of experience, I work with startups and scale-ups to unblock critical issues:

- Delivery too slow or unpredictable

- Ineffective product/tech organization

- Technical debt hindering the roadmap

- Difficulty in concretely leveraging AI

My pragmatic and impact-oriented approach:

- Fine-grained breakdown → continuous delivery

- Team empowerment

- Friction removal (unnecessary processes, silos…)

- Concrete use of AI

What I do

- Structuring tech/product teams

- Improving delivery (lead time, frequency, quality)

- Coaching early-stage CTOs

- Implementing modern engineering practices (CI/CD, no-estimates, ownership…)

- Integrating AI into workflows (dev, product)

Experiences

VP Engineering @ Wanteeed

Product & Tech Transformation @ Cdiscount

Technical Coaching @ Adoria

Available for short-term, high-impact missions.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Bordeaux (up to 10km)

Wanteeed
VP Engineering
E-COMMERCE
September 2022 - May 2026 (3 years and 8 months)
Bordeaux, France
Wanteeed is a platform for improving purchasing power through cashback and promo codes, with over 1 million users and several million euros in annual revenue (affiliation).

As VP Engineering and a member of the executive committee, I am responsible for the performance of the technical teams and the overall capacity to deliver impactful product features.

I focus on organization, delivery, and technical strategy, with a constant emphasis on execution.

- Organization & Management
- Managed 4 product teams + 1 platform team (10–15 engineers)
- Structured the organization: recruitment, individual follow-up, career path implementation
- Empowered teams and fostered autonomy
- Accelerated Delivery
- Implemented short cycles (< 1 week)
- Significantly reduced lead time
- Improved deployment frequency
- Engineering & Quality
- Implemented and consolidated practices: CI/CD, testing strategy
- Monitored performance metrics (DORA metrics)
- Enhanced observability and reliability
- AI & Innovation
- Explored LLM use cases for product and engineering
- Integrated AI into development workflows (Claude, GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit)
- Product & Strategy
- Actively contributed to the product roadmap
- Participated in architectural decisions and technical strategy
- Outreach
- Presented at tech conferences and meetups
Product Management Engineering Management Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Product Engineering LLM & AI Agents
Adoria
Technical Coach / CTO as a Service
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
September 2021 - September 2022 (1 year)
Bordeaux, France
SaaS management software for the restaurant industry (chains and franchises).

At Adoria, I supported the technical teams in improving their development practices and organization within a growing SaaS product context.

The main challenges concerned code quality, maintainability, and the ability to effectively evolve the product.

I worked on:
- Improving development practices (testing, quality, code reviews)
- Disseminating software craftsmanship principles
- Enhancing developer skills
- Structuring teams around good technical practices
- Gradually improving delivery

The goal was to make teams more autonomous and capable of maintaining a high level of quality while continuing to deliver value.

This approach led to an improvement in the overall product quality and facilitated future developments.
TDD DDD Team Coaching
Cdiscount
Craft / DevOps Coach
E-COMMERCE
April 2019 - September 2021 (2 years and 5 months)
Bordeaux, France
As a DevOps coach and then a Craft coach, I supported teams in transforming their development practices and organization.

The objective was to concretely improve delivery capability in a historically project-oriented environment, with long cycles and significant technical debt.

- Team Transformation
- Transformed project teams into product teams
- Empowered teams and improved autonomy
- Delivery & DevOps
- Implemented CI/CD practices at scale
- Generalized containerization
- Improved deployment frequency
- Quality & Technical Debt
- Improved code quality and development practices
- Gradually reduced legacy code
- Established shared standards and best practices

These transformations significantly improved the teams' ability to deliver quickly and more reliably.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Docker Product Engineering Software Craftsmanship Team Coaching