Resume

Technology

HTML (knowledgeable), CSS (authored 2 books about it), JavaScript/TypeScript, React (main JS framework), accessibility (steady theoretical knowledge), security (knowledgeable), GraphQL (knowledgeable), Rust (novice)

Leadership

Engineering management (led departments up to 35 people), effective hiring, team building, engineering growth, understanding of regulations (fintech and medtech)

Other skills

Documentation (tech-writer and passionate), softwate testing, workplace safety (minorly involved in N26 Works Council formation), agile practices (informed)

VP of Engineering @ Scilife Berlin, 2024–2026

• Reorganized the technology department from location-based silos to cross-functional teams
• Hired Engineers and Engineering Managers to accompany the department restructuration
• Championed engineering practices such as code reviews, unit testing and RFC processes
• Established processes to interface with other teams including SLAs and expectations (GTM teams)
• Supported the product strategy and its roadmap with engineering estimations and planning
• Sponsored security initiatives such as internal audits and external penetration tests

VP of Engineering @ Cofenster Berlin, 2022–2024

• Brought software engineering maturity and processes to the team
• Organised the Product & Engineering team in cross-functional squads to improve delivery
• Championed quality topics such as security, scaling, accessibility and compliance
• Maintained and actively contribute to company-wide documentation, particularly about culture, product and engineering
• Supported technical initiatives such as compliance and certification acquisition
• Contributed to the product roadmap and strategy as well as its implementation
• Took over hiring and onboarding for engineering roles

Group Engineering Lead @ Gorillas Berlin, 2021–2022

• Helped grow the Product, Design & Engineering organization from a few dozens to over 200 people.
• Established processes and guidelines for the department (most notably the 360 feedback process, but also absence policies, engineering practices, IT and security guidelines…).
• Championed accessibility, diversity and inclusion, as well as workspace safety in the organization.
• Supported officializing the use of the culture-add interview for all roles and helped design and conduct that interview stage.
• Designed the interviewing process for web engineers (through which over a dozen hires too place), and helped hiring tech recruiters and group leads.
• Worked with the security team to enable relevant policies and guidelines for the department.
• Took part in Due Diligence exercises to audit the quality of the organization’ SDLC, architecture and security practices.

Lead Web Engineer @ Gorillas Berlin, 2021–2021

• Hired as one of the first engineers to build up the Product, Design & Engineering organization at a time where there wasn’t one.
• Grew the web team to over 10 engineers, whose seniority levels spread from junior to engineering lead.
• Defined the early web infrastructure such as the adoption of Next.js, Sanity, Cypress, Fela and other frameworks and technologies.
• Championed accessibility, testing and security in all web projects.
• Championed diversity and inclusion at the organization level to ensure it grows in solid and healthy bases.

Web Tech Lead @ N26 GmbH Berlin, 2018–2020

• Grew the web team from 1 to 20+ engineers, now in 4 different offices over the world.
• Built a culture of feedback, inclusion and respect, now powering a very diverse and high-performing team.
• Designed and implemented a test automation strategy and deployment pipeline to release multiple projects on a daily basis.

Senior Frontend Developer @ N26 GmbH Berlin, 2016–2018

• Set up the groundwork for all N26 customer-facing web projects to ever come, now supporting the marketing website, the support center, the N26 webapp, the signup process and more.
• Installed high quality practices such as security, accessibility and testability, shared with all members of the web team and beyond.
• Initiated the web docs hub and wrote most of the existing documentation (70,000+ words).

Web Developer @ Edenspiekermann Berlin, 2015–2016

• Worked on a variety of frontend client projects.
• Paired with designers on a regular basis to ensure consistency between design deliveries and final implementations.
• Encouraged authoring guidelines and practices across the organisation, especially around CSS.
• Started the Edenspiekermann dev blog.

Web Developer @ Crédit Agricole Grenoble, 2011–2015

• Implemented frontend of a now-retired e-commerce platform.
• Set up Sass guidelines to author CSS which could scale.
• Designed Twig (Symfony) architecture to support theming.
• Developed a simple ad management system in PHP.

Notable open-source projects

• Sass Guidelines, an opinionated styleguide for writing sane, maintainable and scalable Sass translated in 13 languages.
• Browserhacks, an extensive list of browser-specific hacks.
• SassDoc, a documentation system for Sass similar to JSDoc for JavaScript.
• Simplified JavaScript Jargon, a community-driven attempt at explaining JavaScript concepts and buzzwords.
• a11y-dialog , a script to make modal dialogs accessible to assistive technology users.
• Find more open-source contributions from me.

Publications

• Jump Start Sass (© 2016, Learnable Editions)
• CSS 3 Pratique du Design Web (© 2014, Eyrolles Editions)

Honor & Awards

• Former Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
• Web Developer of the Year 2015 Nominee
• Open Source Xena Awards 2023 Nominee

Playing Geoguesser, video games and pool, hanging out with my cats, writing, cooking, and the occasional side project that never gets finished. 😅