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.
2021-11-01 —
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
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
2014-07-01 — 2016-12-01
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
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
2005-09-01 — 2009-08-01
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
Management
- Planning
- Decision-making
- Delegation
Backend
- Python
- Django
- Postgres
- Docker
- Redis
- Celery
- shell
AWS
- EC2
- RDS
- Cloudfront
- Route53