David Remond

The startup La Place de l'Immobilier is the main data provider in the real estate sector, offering several solutions for sales management, asset management, and market observatories.

Activities:

- Management of 20 internal and offshore staff in Madagascar and Mauritius (PO, developers, QA, UX/UI Designers, DevOps, system administrators, support)

- Participation in the Executive Committee

- Definition and management of the master plan and roadmap

- Management of the digital transformation of the monolithic IT system into a modular, service-oriented system, migrating from an On-Premise model to a Cloud model

- Structuring and optimization of the department's activities (processes, methods, organization)

- Budget management and monitoring

- Definition of application, software, and technical architectures (e.g., Observatories, Document Management System, performance optimization, security, etc.)

- Recruitment and skill development of employees

- Execution of numerous Proofs of Concept (POCs) to identify the best solutions for expressed requirements

Achievements:

- IT department audit and implementation of transition actions

- Integration of observatories (PowerBI reports) into the application

- Significant acceleration of release cycles and the number of deployed features

- Definition of the architecture and prototyping of the future product

- Employee retention

- Improved collaboration with other departments (Data, Sales)

Context:

AWS | GCP | Azure | PHP | Symfony | TypeScript | Kotlin | nodejs | Symfony | nest.js | React | PostgreSQL | MongoDB | PowerBI Embedded | Machine Learning | Kubernetes | Docker | terraform | Ansible | RabbitMQ | Gitlab | Jira | Github | Confluence | OpenData | OAuth | Azure AD B2C | Keycloak

Scam is a copyright collection and distribution society specializing in documentaries and reports.

Activities:

- Management of a team of 15 people

- Participation in defining the strategy and roadmap for all projects in terms of workload, deadlines, and costs (build and run)

- Coordination with product, infrastructure, and L2 support teams

- Significant improvement in team performance, production release frequency, and deliverable quality

- Machine Learning for automatic classification of usage rights

- Decision-making and implementation of architectures and technical solutions to standardize the IT system (urbanization, framework)

- Reduction of technical debt and long-term viability of technological choices (cloud, gradual phasing out of legacy systems)

- Definition and implementation of the DevOps strategy and industrialization of the software development pipeline (continuous deployment)

- Implementation of application performance monitoring and operational standards

- Improvement of software quality and skill development of technical teams

- Establishment of the documentation repository (processes & methods and architectures)

- Change management and implementation of the Agile/Scrum methodology

- Management of cross-functional projects and monitoring of objective achievement (Document Management, Machine Learning, CRM, etc.)

- Sourcing of internal/external resources and management of subcontractor relationships

Achievements:

- IT system transformation and move to Cloud

- Management of numerous projects

- Implementation of DevOps culture within the IT department

- Significant increase in the number of releases

- Implementation of a Document Management System (> 1 million documents)

- CRM migration

- Skill development of internal employees

Context:

Scrum | Azure | Angular | StoryBook | TypeScript | C# | VB.NET | Python | Machine Learning | SQL Server | elasticSearch | Dynamics CRM | Biztalk | Sharepoint | Azure DevOps | terraform | DotNetNuke

The startup ESV DIGITAL offers a SaaS solution for managing and optimizing multi-channel online advertising.

Activities:

- Responsibility for architecture and software quality for the data-oriented SaaS solution

- Identification and consolidation of best design and implementation practices within a team of 20 senior engineers

- Management of an offshore team of 10 developers and 4 testers (50 projects/year) in a multicultural and international context

- Technical point of contact for our product department and during projects to validate critical architectural choices for our SaaS platform

- Management of technical debt reduction initiatives (code cleanup, reduction of lines of code, simplifications, refactoring, etc.) and design improvements (reduction of dependencies, coupling, etc.)

- Management of the documentation project by defining objectives and coordinating the engineers' writing efforts (approximately 1000 pages of wiki documentation produced).

- Execution of numerous POCs to validate architectural choices and identify limitations

- Development related to handling large volumes of data (mass duplication and updates), optimization of marketing budgets, and redesign of our Product Feed integration chain with third parties (engines, shopping engines, etc.)

- Technological watch on the evolution of our partners (Google, Bing, Facebook, etc.) and on technological advancements that could impact our platform.

Achievements:

- Implementation of the documentation repository, best practices, and documentation processes

- Execution of 50 projects per year with the offshore team

- Redesign of the Product Feed module

- Improvement of release quality with a significant reduction in the leakage rate

Context:

.NET | C# | TypeScript | Flash | Flex Builder | PostgreSQL | SonarQube | CruiseControl