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Chicago, IL, US

Los Angeles, California, US

Mountain View, CA, US

• Joined DNAnexus to enhance the backend scalability and security, and re-organize the existing engineering team to grow from early stage startup practices to enterprise-grade processes. Grew domain centric engineering.
• Lead a team of 64 engineers and 6 managers across 4 locations.
• Streamlined the recruitment process, standardized engineering job interviews, hired 24 additional FTEs.
• Increased the visibility of engineering in the organization by providing real-time dashboards of customer activity.
• Refactored the billing system, moving from a monthly batch-oriented process to a near real-time event pipeline driven approach.
• Instilled a culture of gradual improvement and frequent deployments, driven by a new container-based continuous integration tool chain.

Seattle, WA, US

• Amplified the reach and visibility of AWS in EMEA by leading technology evangelism, a team of highly skilled technical individuals involved in public speaking engagements to promote AWS. Shown thought leadership in the.
• Ran the AWS Summit Series in EMEA in 12 cities including London, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona and Stockholm.
• Public Relations trained speaker with +50 press interviews.
• Delivered +250 public speaking engagements at +100 conferences.
• Grew the number of independent AWS User Groups from 3 to 24.
• Coordinated the content creation and public messaging in technical topics such as DevOps, Microservices Architectures and Data Analysis.

Seattle, WA, US

• Increased the EMEA AWS market share by scaling beyond individual contributions and built a team of +50 Solutions Architects (SAs) distributed across Europe. Participated in opening new AWS offices in Paris, Munich.
• Established AWS technical credibility with high-profile enterprises and startups in EMEA.
• Helped customers build scalable, resilient, secure and high-performance architectures.
• Interviewed +500 people in the process of growing the SA team.
• Participated in designing the first set of AWS certifications exams.
• Designed the speaker program preparing SAs to talk in public events.

Seattle, WA, US

• Mentored and guided AWS customers in EMEA in building sophisticated cloud applications such as large scale data processing pipelines, real-time fraud detection systems, mobile applications back-ends and highly.
• Joined a seed team of only 4 team members in EU.
• Defined the first set of architecture design patterns with AWS.
• Published the 8 initial AWS Reference Architectures.
• Wrote the "Development & Test on AWS" white paper.

Brussels, BE

• Designed and launched the first components of the AT4LEX project: the next-generation repository for EU laws and amendments, with edition tools, translation pipeline management and operational dashboards.
• Wrote the feasibility studies and UML project documentations.
• Promoted the project internally and charted the initial POCs.

• Launched an ERP and IT governance software suite. The product was deployed on production at +10 major enterprises. This startup was acquired by its main customer (Eiffage).
• Largest deployment oversaw 400 servers in 8 different environments.
• Implemented the security and disaster recovery procedures.
• Recipe-based software deployment and scheduling system and Nagios agents.
• Core authentication system built on Kerberos.

• Lead a development team on a 3 years project aiming to rewrite an existing legacy ERP as a web-based platform. Enhanced the team efficiency by introducing agile development methodologies (Scrum), automated testing.
• Migrated a C-based ERP application to Java / JBoss / Oracle stack.
• Increased the team efficiency and provided weekly running builds.
• Improved the platform security by conducting systematic audits.

• Developed and commercialized an automated web interface generator based on existing IBM AS400 databases. The company was acquired by a web consultancy firm, the product was integrated to their portfolio.
• Created and developed the company from the ground up to 20 people.
• Deployed the solution on +50 customers in France.
• Core software stack based on Java, Tomcat, JDBC, Flash MX.