Resume

Technology

HTML (knowledgeable), CSS (authored 2 books about it), JavaScript, React (main JS framework for the last few years), accessibility (steady theoretical knowledge), security (knowledgeable)

Other skills

Documentation (tech-writer and passionate), hiring/team building, workplace safety (minorly involved in N26 Works Council formation), agile practices (informed)

VP of Engineering @ Scilife Berlin, 2024–present

• Managing the Engineering department
• Defining and drive the execution of the engineering roadmap, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Overseeing the architecture, design, and development of the new platform
• Ensuring best practices in software development, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, and CI/CD processes

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. 😅