Results-driven, hands-on engineering leader with a proven track record in delivering in a fast-paced, challenging work environment. I have extensive experience leading, organising, growing, coaching and motivating internationally distributed development teams from 5 - 20+ people.I was previously a back-end developer with 10+ years experience developing high traffic web-based systems. I'm equally comfortable with every piece of the stack from back-end data stores to the presentation layer.As a developer and a manager, I've dealt with scalability and performance issues on websites and web services with many millions of hits per day, and datasets with hundreds of billions of rows. But every technical solution must start with a great product idea, and I love working with product owners to define requirements and produce functional and technical specifications to help build great products.Key skills :* Team management, Program Management, Process, Team building, Recruitment, Coaching.* In-depth knowledge of Agile Development - Certified Scrum Master* Specialising in producing highly scalable, highly available technologies* Internationalisation/Localisation* Front-end and back-end development for low latency, high traffic web sites* Software development: Ruby/Rails, PHP/Symfony, Javascript, Python, Perl, C#, ...* Understand business needs and constraints, translate them into technical specifications* Provide support in product roadmap definition and prioritisation* Extensive experience of platform integration with partners* Fluent English, French. conversational level Spanish, Levantine Arabic, and German (CEFR level C1).