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Summary

International leader with 20+ years in Software Development, in technology and management roles, with a focus on building teams and social impact

Work experience

2020present
🇷🇼 Kigali, Rwanda

Director of Engineering, One Acre Fund

On a mission to restructure the tech team, modernize legacy tools, and support digital transformation and AgTech strategy

  • Assembled and reorganized the team (from ~10 to ~65 engineers) introducing new roles (business analysts, project managers) and improving DEI and engagement metrics
  • Led the redesign of legacy solutions to an open-source cloud-based stack (Odoo | Fineract | Keycloak | Payment Hub | ODK) for retail & mobile sales, payments and credits, CRM features, rolled out to 8 African countries (400 shops, 2M$ sales)
  • Rolled out modern BI & analytics stack: Snowflake | Airbyte | Superset
  • Built the DevOps function, introducing CI/CD (GitHub Actions),
    moved to cloud operations (Helm | k8s, 400+ containers) with app monitoring (Elasticsearch | Prometheus | OpenTelemetry) and secure coding practices
  • Piloting AI&ML solutions: Ag chatbots, pest & disease identification, seed recommender (Langchain)
20162019
🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand

Head of Bespoke Developments APAC, Amadeus

Took over a distributed team of ~50 developers across APAC to lead them through a period of intense transformation:

  • Geographic rationalization (7 to 3 sites)
  • Complete devops overhaul (0 to ~60% automation in 1 year)
  • Stack modernization (Docker, Angular)
20122016
🇫🇷 Sophia-Antipolis, France then 🇸🇬 Singapore

Senior Manager, Flight Management, Airport IT, Amadeus

Heading development of core components related to AODB and flight data processing and display (planning, operations, history).

  • Assembled highly recognized teams, from 8 to 45+ members in France and India
  • Most modules went from scratch to UAT within 6 months!
  • Moved to Singapore following the acquisition of UFIS, which I helped integrate in terms of infrastructure, processes and technology, reporting to the CEO
  • Rolled out modern processes and tools
20082012
🇮🇳 Bangalore, India

Manager, Ness Technologies (for Amadeus)

Contributed to the founding of the first development center for Amadeus in India, in various technical and managerial roles, helping it grow from 20 to 500+ over 5 years.

  • Oversaw IT infrastructure integration with Amadeus
  • Provided general coaching, technology directions, networking and project management practices to local teams
  • Instrumental in recruitment effort
  • Key role in the launch of several high-profile projects, in particular leading our first Mobile Competency Center
20022008
🇫🇷 Sophia-Antipolis, France

DevOps Engineer, then Architect, Amadeus

Technical consultancy and coordination for large cross-division projects.

  • Landmark study to standardize web framework strategy across departments
  • DevOps mission to develop load testing and monitoring solutions

Skills

DevOps & Cloud Operations

Kubernetes, Helm, Elasticsearch...

Design & Architecture

Technology selection and integration

Software Quality

Clean/secure coding, NFR, test automation...

Building Teams & Organizations

Hiring, process improvement & governance...

Hands-on Coding

Mostly Python and Javascript ecosystems

Certifications & Awards

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2019)
  • Node.js Application Developer (2020)
  • Elastic Certified Engineer (2019)
  • 2011 AppJam award for my app CheckMyTrip
  • 2010 Amadeus India "Best Manager" award

Education

2002: Engineering Degree, École Centrale Paris

1997: Science Baccalauréat with honors

Hobbies

  • Photography | Portfolio
  • Traveling | 55 countries
  • Investing | startups & real-estate
  • Hiking | Kilimanjaro, Kinabalu, Mt Kenya...
  • Running | Marathon 3h34
  • Coding | contribs to 10+ OSS projects