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Python developer with 15+ years spent in start-ups which turned into successful businesses. Along my career I moved from Back-end developer roles to Head of Back-end where I help a team of 10 engineers (and counting) grow their skills and experience.

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2021-11-01 —

Head of Back-end

Yescapa (100 employees, 15 when I joined) is the European leader in peer to peer motorhome and campervan hire.

Highlights

  • define the back-end recruitment strategy
  • lead the effort to constantly adapt the organisation/methodology/tools to support team growth
  • get things done via coding, communicating or delegating
  • explain and illustrate the company strategic goals to the managers and ensure the message is properly communicated to the whole team

2018-05-01 — 2021-11-01

Back-end and Infrastructure manager

Highlights

  • code strategic features with high impact on the business in the context of cancellations due to the covid crisis
  • coordinate continuous integration effort and enforce a culture of deploy early and often (multiple times a day when necessary)
  • work in close collaboration with product owner to shape the future roadmap

2017-01-01 — 2018-05-01

Django developer

2014-07-01 — 2016-12-01

Python developer

coog by Coopengo (40 empl, 5 when I joined) is an open-source dedicated insurance software based on Tryton ORM. A personal milestone as I incorporated python and opensource, hitherto hobbies, into my daily work.

Highlights

  • sole developer on a strategic project to migrate a portfolio of +1 million insurance contracts

2010-07-01 — 2014-06-01

R&D MATLAB/Qt developer

Balyo (200 empl., 3 when I joined) makes autonomous robots for load movements.

Highlights

  • release manager and automation of build system (CMake, CDash)
  • lead source code management migration effort from SVN to Git

2009-12-01 — 2010-07-01

C developer

2005-09-01 — 2009-08-01

R&D C++/Qt developer

MKT (120 empl., 15 when I joined) is the inventor of Cellvizio device that performs real-time in vivo cellular imaging. I joined a team of 8 C++/Qt developers working on an ISO 14971 (risk management) compliant medical software codebase that had significant performance constraints to satisfy. Incredible experience that ignited my *thing* for startups.

Université Bordeaux I 2000 — 2005

Informatique Multimédia Imagerie Médicale
Master 2

Management

  • Planning
  • Decision-making
  • Delegation

Backend

  • Python
  • Django
  • Postgres
  • Docker
  • Redis
  • Celery
  • shell

AWS

  • EC2
  • RDS
  • Cloudfront
  • Route53

Piano

Chess

Horology

Open source

Reading Sci-fi