Armand Du Plessis is a Founder at Pulse. He possess expertise in mobile, ruby on rails, payments, mobile devices, vas and 13 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "A natural collaborator, leader and innovator, Armand has a keen ability to to take complex data and translate into simple, most relevant solutions which create value. As an athlete, Armand brings his traits to all that he does including the board room - resilience, confidence and credibility whilst inspiring teams. It was a pleasure to work with Armand. " and "I had the pleasure of working with Armand while he served as CTO at Hornet he built scalable systems to grow from zero users to 25 million and counting. Armand spearheaded our engineer as well as product teams, not small task. He build our system architecture and or our design team processes and married them with the engineering pipeline. In the early days of smartphones until now, Armand was responsible for marrying team objectives from revenue to user delight. He proved to be a renaissance man, able to lead and move mountains. In a given week 700 million messages fly across Hornet, users reference a database of billions of those messages, a trillion ad impressions, and localized across mobile and web to 150 countries and 27+ languages. Armand was instrumental in getting us to make data driven decisions. Along those lines, he drove user growth through product changes focused on measurable results and revenue optimization around multi variant testing. He organized our team around engineering sprints when previously we struggled with limited and strapped resources. Armand is a true product and user evangelists. Most importantly, engineers love him. He is a titan in knowledge and entertaining spirit. This will come to no surprise after you learn he is an extreme athlete and brings every aspect and enthusiasm of sky-marathons to his work. I never second guessed the value he brought; and put him many times in front of both investors and board members. Anytime I hear from him these days, he is usually saying hello and adding value to my company long after leaving us. His legacy with us lives on with Hornet and imagine it will for some time."