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Description

20 years of experience in building high-performance technical teams, architecture and development of SAAS products.

Great experience in managing high-load production (10 million VU / month, 150 million page views / month, 5000 EC2 instances, 15 million RPM) in an AWS environment.

Expertise in problem solving and root cause analysis

Do not hesitate to contact me for technical management, team management, architecture missions with a need for skills around web technologies and high traffic

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Fluent
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Montpellier (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km)

QIMA
Chief Technology Officer
January 2023 - September 2024 (1 year and 8 months)
Paris, France
QIMA is on a mission to offer clients smart solutions to make products consumers can trust. With a global reach spanning 100+ countries, QIMA serves the consumer products, food and life sciences industries, supporting more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers and food growers. The company combines on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions to bring accuracy and visibility for quality, safety and compliance data.

▻ Led a diverse team of 150 professionals worldwide (Brazil, Mexico, France, Eastern Europe, India, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Philippines), fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, across Product, Tech, Data, Infrastructure, IT and Security

▻ Directly responsible for the global IT and technology strategy, aligning it with QIMA's business goals, focusing on innovation and efficiency in the supply chain inspection, testing, and certification services

▻ Championed the transformation towards a product-centric organization, shifting from traditional project-based approaches to foster agility and enhance customer value delivery

▻ Pushed the company to adopt smart automations and Generative AI technology where it made sense (customer success, backoffice operations, automatic document reading) to improve operational efficiency

▻ Successfully negotiated and managed multi-million dollar budgets, optimizing IT spend while ensuring technological advancements are aligned with strategic business outcome
Spendesk
Director of Engineering
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
December 2021 - February 2023 (1 year and 2 months)
▻ Responsible for the engineering department dedicated to Spendesk's core product & integrations (100 engineers)
▻ Built the technology strategy and vision as Spendesk moved from startup to scaleup
▻ Worked closely with the CPO to build a highly efficient engineering organisation focusing on delighting our customers while improving our reliability and resilience

▻ Scaled the engineering department from 40 to 100 engineers in France and remote EU as the company was going through hyper-growth
▻ Conducted an org change to align teams with the different personas served by the product
▻ Managed the customer care team to have it work closer with tech support
Team Management Technical Management Recruitment
Datadog
SRE Leadership
DIGITAL AND IT
November 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 1 month)
▻ Scaled and organised the Core SRE organisation accross multiple timezones (US/EU) with a strong focus on resilience, automation and Chaos Engineering
▻ Improved large scale game day process to make it scale with the company
▻ Enabled the open sourcing of Datadog's Chaos Controller
▻ Defined the new Systems Engineer hiring process and career path
▻ Created the post-mortem reading group to maximise learning from incidents
▻ Publicly Spoke about our processes and tools during customer - vendor gathering