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Willy D.WD

Willy D.

Data Product Manager

€700/day
Paris, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Willy

🎓 BACKGROUND
Graduated from Centrale Paris (2017), I started at Suez (Graduate Program 3 years, Paris & Sydney). First app prototyped there. The spark. Since then: Senior Product Manager, 6+ years on B2B data & AI SaaS products (start-up, SME, large groups) in energy, water, and waste sectors.

🎯 DIFFERENTIATION
→ Engineering background: I speak the technical language
→ Pedagogy: I align teams
→ Impact obsession: users, organizations, society

📊 PROOF OF IMPACT
→ €15k/month in OPEX savings (Wakeo)
→ 22 GWh of energy saved (Datanumia)
→ 10% reduction in unpaid bills (Alpiq)
→ +20 pts in NLP algorithm relevance (Miralia)

Outside of product: trainer for 60+ students (Lattitudes), mentor to 50+ students, impact investor (Time for the Planet), wetland ambassador (Flamingo).

🌍 Are you building a data/AI product with significant societal impact (Greentech, Healthtech, Cleantech)? Contact me.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Kaluza
    Senior Product Manager - Data & AI
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    April 2026 - Today (2 months)
    Paris, France
    Multiple missions:
    • Built data QA from scratch: +200 automated quality checks on 30 critical B2C tables (Delta), certification cockpit and quality reporting adopted by ENGIE business units with each release
    • Led the data replatforming of ENGIE B2C Belgium on Databricks: governance, Avro versioning, and roadmap of about twenty dimensional models sequenced with analytics engineers to improve ENGIE reports reliability

    Tools: Databricks, Jira, Confluence, Miro
    Databricks Data Quality Data Governance Product Management Delivery Management
  • Alpiq France
    Senior Product Manager - Data & AI
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    August 2025 - March 2026 (7 months)
    Paris, France
    Multiple missions:
    • Managed the billing product for over 200,000 individual customers in France, with a focus on reliability (including incident investigations with DB analysis), service continuity, and meeting billing deadlines
    • Coordinated regular production releases with a fully remote squad (2 developers in Madagascar/Morocco, 1 QA in Tunisia)
    • Implemented electronic invoicing for Alpiq's professional clients

    Key functionality:
    • Designed and deployed an installment payment solution to facilitate invoice payments for individual customers and reduce unpaid bills by 10%

    Tools: Confluence, Jira, Power BI, DBeaver, Glowroot, Grafana
    Atlassian Confluence Atlassian JIRA Grafana Jira/Confluence SQL
  • Wakeo
    Senior Product Manager - Data & AI
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    December 2024 - July 2025 (7 months)
    Paris, France
    Multiple missions:
    • Managed a B2B SaaS product for data and AI, enabling clients to track the entire journey of their multimodal shipments (sea, air, rail, inland waterway, road) with a high requirement for reliability and anticipation
    • Created and led a task force dedicated to improving the relevance, completeness, and latency of tracking data for over 1300 multimodal carriers, enhancing product reliability for clients

    Key functionality:
    • Reduced infrastructure costs by €15k/month through the redesign of the air tracking solution, correlating with improved milestone completeness and reduced latency for clients

    Tools: Notion, Miro, Power BI, Mixpanel, Linear, New Relic, DBeaver, Mezmo, Product Fruit
    Notion Miro New Relic DBeaver Mixpanel

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Education

  • Engineer
    Ecole centrale de Paris
    2016
    Spécialité : Biotechnologies & Innovation
  • Preparatory classes, MPSI - PSI
    Lycée Saint Louis
    2013
    Classes préparatoires, MPSI - PSI

Certifications

  • Noé Product Manager Bootcamp
    Noé
    2022
    Product Management Data Analysis Product Discovery Prototype Agile Methodology Functional Specifications Data Analysis Product Strategy User Research SQL

Skill set

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