Thierry Abaléa Email & Phone Number

Paris, Fr

Empowering Developers with Faster, Cost-Effective CI Solutionshttps://www.shipfox.io

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity startup focusing on code security solutions for the DevOps generationGitGuardian raised 44M$ in December 2021 and is backed by prominent investors including Eurazeo, Balderton and Sapphire- Effectively expanded the engineering team from 55 to 80 professionals in just 9 months, demonstrating strong leadership and team-building capabilities.- Reorganized the engineering team into four dynamic tribes (Core, Secrets, New Verticals, and Platform), encompassing 17 specialized squads.- Provided direct management and strategic guidance to 4 Engineering Managers and 2 Staff Engineers, cultivating a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.- Took on a hands-on leadership role for a quarter, steering the Platform squads (SRE, Data, Security, ML, & IT) through the Engineering Leads, focusing on critical project delivery and team alignment.- Managed and nurtured crucial vendor relationships, particularly with infrastructure providers like AWS and OVH, to ensure top-tier service efficiency and reliability.- Developed and executed a robust Continuous Delivery strategy, streamlining deployment processes and accelerating time-to-market for new features and updates.- Formulated and monitored a cost-efficiency plan, which included a contractor destaffing strategy and infrastructure cost reduction initiatives.- Developed and monitored key Productivity KPIs (application performance, DORA, development lead time, DevX survey)- Initiated and implemented process improvements across various domains, including hiring, design documentation, and post-mortem analyses, leading to enhanced operational efficiency.Technical Environment: Proficient in a dynamic technical environment, including AWS, Python, React, TypeScript, and bare metal ElasticSearch clusters.Experienced in developing products in both SAAS and Self-Hosted modes.

Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Île-De-France, Fr

Alma, a leading European Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) company, offers flexible payment solutions to over 6,000 merchants, processing transactions exceeding €1 billion annually. The company has raised a total of $211 million in equity funding, focusing on expansion across Europe and improving its product suite.- Spearheaded the entire engineering team- Successfully scaled the engineering team from 8 to 85 engineers within a span of one year, demonstrating exceptional leadership and recruitment skills.- Structured the engineering team into three effective tribes (Customers, Merchants, and Platform), comprising 15 specialized squads, to optimize project management and streamline workflow.- Provided direct management and strategic guidance to 3 Senior Engineering Managers (Heads of) and one Senior Staff Lead, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.- Played a pivotal role in managing critical vendor relationships, including major providers like GCP and various Identity Providers, ensuring seamless integration and service efficiency.- Collaborated closely with high-profile customers such as Apple and SNCF, enhancing client satisfaction and fostering long-term business relationships.- Led the Machine Learning Team for one year, implementing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to drive forward the company’s technical capabilities.- Developed and monitored key Productivity KPIs including NPS, Developer Experience Surveys, DORA metrics, and system uptime, leading to measurable improvements in team efficiency and product quality.- Advocated and implemented a Domain-Driven Design Approach in team organization, significantly enhancing project clarity and aligning technical efforts with business objectives.Technical Environment: Proficient in managing and working within a technical environment encompassing GCP, Python, React, and TypeScript.Uptime of 99.95%

Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Île-De-France, Fr

New York, Us

Aircall is the cloud-based phone system of choice for modern brands. Sales and support teams, or the entire company, can have their phone system up and running in just a few clicks and integrated with the tools that they love (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Front, Intercom and many more!)- Rebuilt from scratch the strategic ecosystem (integrations) team in full remote: recruitment andonboarding of 10 engineers from 4 different countries (full remote & relocation).- Support 2 Engineers in their transition to a People Management role.- Redefined & coach the Aircall hiring process for all backend engineers: Home Exercise, Pair Prog, ManagerInterviews.- Involve in the hiring for the other teams and in the opening of a new Engineering Office.- Mentor engineers on Extreme Programming: TDD, Pair/Mob Prog, Simple Design, Collaboration, ...- Coaching on Product/Engineering/QA collaboration (BDD, Organisation, Mindset)- Influenced & drived the architecturing and development of a new technical stack for current and futureintegrations (Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda/API Gateway & DynamoDB). Main drivers: latency (< 100ms), fast development, reliability (failover support of the 3rd party SAAS tools) & scalability (30% of theproduction workload migrated in 2 months).- Defined with the team a unique Test Strategy. Same functional tests could be run with or without 3rd partySAAS tools for 2 different feedback loops.- Led cross teams workshops on Product/Engineering/QA collaboration.

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Crème de la crème connects companies with a highly selective community of freelancers in tech, design & digital marketing.• Leading and mentoring a team of 4 developers that develops from scratch the next platform.• Architecturing the next platform based on a new stack: React.js, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker & Terraform.• Helping the Product Team to organize the backlog (using User Story Mapping) and defining better stories.• Implementing features with the team in Pair or Mob Programming.• Coaching on development practices: TDD, Design & Clean Code.• Working closely with the Data Scientist and the Growth Team on the Data Architecture.

Fluo is a startup of 18 employees founded in 2013 that develops solutions to optimize insurance experience and conversion.Based on a common technology, we are developing in parallel a B2C and B2B2C commercial activities. The two feed each other. A growing number of Travel Merchants and Neobanks (Bankin, Max, Linxo, ...) are integrating our solutions into their websites & mobile apps.Fluo has raised 3 M€ in Seed and Series A rounds.Contributions & Achievements:• Recruited, led and mentored a team of 13 developers.• Rearchitected the entire information system (web apps, mobile apps, backends) to accelerate the evolution of the numerous B2C & B2B applications and services. Solution: 1 language (JavaScript/Flow) ; 1 source repository and a Trunk Based Development workflow ; 2 similar user interface technologies (React.js for the web, React Native for the mobile apps).• Implemented features in pair programming half of my time. Goals: detect earlier the technical problems & understand them better & coaching on development practices (TDD, Design, Clean Code).• Successfully promoted the company as a technological organization: 4 talks of our engineers have been selected at Devoxx France 2018, more than most companies, even ones with hundreds of engineers.• Led the project to comply to the ISO 27001 standard related to our partnership with banks. Tasks:participated in the writing of the security policy ; implemented processes ; led the design & implementation of new security features ; built an AWS infrastructure to follow best practices in terms of security, auditability & resilience.• Played an active role in frequent Backlog Grooming (User Story Mapping), Technical Grooming sessions, Technical RFC processes (that socialize ideas related to technical changes, collect feedback, and take informed decisions engaging the whole engineering team http://bit.ly/rfc-in-a-non-internet-context).• Worked on the technical narrative of the R&D Tax Credit files (CIR & CII).

Nanterre, Ile-De-France, Fr

• Recruited, led and mentored a team of 3 developers to build a new application.• Formulated an automation test strategy to enable fast-paced, high-quality developments (only 3 bugsduring 1 year of weekly production releases).• Designed a real-time streaming quotes and orders service with a 99.9th percentile latency of 1 ms.• Built a low-latency workflow library based on a State Machine (NFA) used by 3 teams and counting.

Nanterre, Ile-De-France, Fr

• Recruited, led and mentored a team of 21 developers (15 Indian & 6 French) to build a new application.• Architected the front-end and back-end services.• Built a distributed system to generate the client reports using a master/slave model.• Reduced time of the data import by a factor of 6 after rewriting the Hibernate code in SQL.

Nanterre, Ile-De-France, Fr

Modernized the technical stack of a legacy application, enabling the team to ship a new large feature in 1/3 rd of previously estimated time.

Nanterre, Ile-De-France, Fr

Built a pop-up notification system for trader’s TODO tasks in Eclipse RCP & GWT.

Boulogne-Billancourt, Ile-De-France, Fr

IT consulting for Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking (SGCIB)

95877 Bezons, Fr

Built successfully various web applications on a Spring/Hibernate/Struts stack.

Diplôme D'Ingénieur, Ingénierie Informatique

Mooc Algorithms Analysis & Design - Part 1 & 2