Engineering Lead of a Tribe of 6 squads in charge of the Product Catalog managing 18 million products

Hiring Management, Line-management of managers and individual contributors engineers (25 people direct and indirect), Values and team work interviewing. Hiring, coaching and managing Tech Leads. Hiring product managers.Defining roadmap, managing backlog, initiatives and OKRs. Managing Tech Debt.Leading 4 squads accountable for : • Building a new system for retail checkout.• Building a new API for online payment (Stripe, Klarna).• Building integrations to Ecommerce systems (Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Opencloud Commerce).• Defining PCI compliance requirements.• Supporting checkout orders operations through manual and automated processing.• Driving conversion for checkout experience on web and apps.Driving the Checkout initiative around the company with different stakeholders (Product, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Design, Brand, Customer Care).

Hiring Management, Line-management of engineers (6 engineers), Values and team work interviewing.Defining roadmap, managing backlog, initiatives and OKRs. Managing Tech Debt.Leading the teams accountable for : • Migrating Python 2 to 3 a project unsupported for 3 years and bringing it back into maintenance.• Migrating payment process with Klarna using Virtual Credit Cards and defining PCI compliance requirements.• Building international checkout operations (US, UK, DE, NL).• Supporting checkout orders operations through manual and automated processing.• Maintaining infrastructure and increasing scalability of email sends up to 400 millions a year.• Building experiments setup for content testing on Emails and Push notifications.• Building data models for customers' fashion affinity out of product views, orders and follows. • Driving push notifications and product alerts on Lyst mobile app, emails and push notifications.Participating in tech culture group organizing hack days, training sessions, internal blog and regular internal events.Driving the Checkout initiative around the company with different stakeholders (Product, Commercial, Legal, Design, Brand, Customer Care).

Leading the technical performance of the team:• Optimised signup forms with experiments and improving signups +100%.• Advocated and implemented passwordless signup and sign in and soft login through email.• Improved reliability of email sending (coverage, opening and conversion).Product management, customer acquisition and email, building software, writing product requirements, analysing data. Collaborated in a cross functional squad (Product, CRM, Design, Customer Care). Managing tech-debt.Line-managing engineers (3 engineers).

Built a cryptocurrency exchange with a team of 3 in 4 months: • Designed architecture and tech stack (Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, SSR React).• Built user service, emails, transaction crafting and deposit hold database. Configured blockchain nodes.• DevOps, deployment on AWS with Cloud Formation, Docker, ECR, ELB, EC2.

BOLDR gathers the best coaching tools to help high achievers find their purpose and guide them to improve themselves.Lead a team of 3 engineers building the core software product for BOLDR:• Business Coach as a assistant on Facebook Messenger.• Machine Learning models to analyse answers and send advice for self-improvement• Reached great retention rates (D1: 85%, D7: 50%, D30: 15%) and final round of selection at TechStars London.Software Architecture and Development (Node, Python)• RESTful API using Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL for a Facebook Messenger Webhook. (Chatbot).• Authoring platform and a multi-channel chatbot framework with a finite state machine and AI modules. • Microservices for generation of infographics for the chatbot.• NLP modules for questions generation and understanding of users’ answers (Python, SpaCy, Word2Vec).• Classifiers using Vowpal Wabbit, MITIE (Regression and SVM), FastText (Shallow Neural Networks and Word vectors).• Clustering and Semantic approach to question generation, AI Dialog Policy using TensorFlow and Keras.DevOps & Analytics• Heroku with pipelined deployment and services on AWS EC2.• Docker, AWS ECS, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFormation for deployments in containers.• Analytics operations using Grafana and InfluxDB to monitor product and technical metrics.• Data Analytics for user-facing visualisations.Team & Partnership Management.• Line-management of 2 engineers (academic + software engineer).• Cross functional team of employees and advisors (software engineers, academics, product managers and coaches to create product features).• Technical partnerships with Cambridge University, Startups in AI, Facebook, AWS, Google Cloud.• Tech presentations with investors and advisors in London, LA and Silicon Valley.

HeyScale helps improve internal communication in companies by providing features to schedule content and recurring reminders on Slack.Product and Marketing • Interviewed customers to analyse the problems of internal communication in companies.• Built landing pages for A/B testing purposes.• Worked on AdWords campaigns with relevant industry keywords.Software Development (MEAN stack) and DevOps on AWS• Developed a RESTful API using Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB and MVC Client based on Angular.• Managed EC2 App servers load-balanced with ELB. Deployed RabbitMQ Cluster for off-loading charge to worker nodes.

BunchCast provides content intelligence to marketing and executive teams to make strategic decisions and feed content marketing.Lead a team of 4 co-founders to build:• A consumer-oriented blogging platform with rich content: One of the first iPad UI web apps natively handling touch events with Pinterest-like interface.• A topic recommendation engine using unsupervised learning.• A content marketing tool to help businesses unlock its power.Product, Marketing and Sales • Defined product vision, strategy & business model.• Managed & prioritized the product backlog from constrained resources.• Conducted customer development interviews for market insights.• Prepared wireframes & mockups for customer development.• Participated in world-class technology conferences & of events in Europe, SV & NY and gathered a worldwide network.• Built landing pages, AdWords and Facebook campaigns using A/B testing.Software Architecture and Development (Node, Ruby, PHP)• Built a data analytics platform to monitor metrics in Node.js, Express.js.• Built topic modelling recommendation engine from social media streaming in Ruby on Rails, Postgres & C.• Built a blogging platform with 2000+ users in PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL + jQuery. Non-blocking I/O fetching data from multiple social media. Precomputing servers to generate blog posts.• Dev Ops (AWS EC2, S3, SQS, RDS, Heroku, BitBucket with automated deployment).

• Built an email templating software to help salespeople provide customization directly to customers.• Built features for executives to handle reimbursement and unpaid bills improving time efficiency.(PHP5)

• Supervised positioning and messaging for flyers and website content.• Managed a project to refresh the website (team of developers & copywriters) leading to 100% increased in views and conversion.• Improved product presentation materials to detail benefits instead of features.• SEO, SEM.

• Authored 15 quality articles in french on startups technology, entrepreneurship, and strategy.

• Conducted customer development interviews.• A/B Testing for landing page to craft value proposition and test pricing (as first MVP).• SEM (Adwords Campaign, Facebook Campaign).• Product Development for second MVP (PHP/ZF)

Glorea was a video blog project on multiple topics : Entertainment, Business, Technology, Society, Culture.

Software product for Account Management and Banking Distribution (Tech stack in Java).• Produced use cases, business requirements, features specifications and UI mockups.• Worked in a distributed team.

Software product for Lending servicing and origination software for consumer credits.• Organized testing campaigns and deployed automated testing tools and QA tools (HP Quality Center).• Managed a team of 3.• IT Business Expertise on Lending services and origination (CRM, Loan contracting).

Software Product used by Arcelor Mittal Construction to handle their whole IT system.• Built features in a AS400 and Java tech stack.• Specification and Development of features for Arcelor Mittal Construction‘s IT system, bug triage.• Managed a team of 5, handling planning, reporting and monitoring key metrics.• Handled product development on features concerning sales management, logistics, production, billing and cost control.

Multimedia Solution for Luxury hotels (customer development, product development).