Arnaud Mauvais

Joined Apple to build the Siri cloud infrastructure from the ground up, one of the most ambitious and time-compressed infrastructure deployments in the history of consumer technology. Siri launched with the iPhone 4S in October 2011 and instantly needed to scale to support hundreds of millions of iOS devices worldwide. Led global teams across Infrastructure Architecture, Automation, Deployment, and Monitoring. Deployed modular, lights-out data centers globally, factory-built, assembled on-site, and live with code running in record time, while driving deployment efficiency down dramatically with each successive rollout. Engineered a custom IaaS automation platform to manage the ongoing operations of the cloud at massive scale. Also led the server-side implementation of the first commercial Multipath TCP (MPTCP) application ever released, a protocol innovation that improved Siri's network resilience across handoffs between Wi-Fi and cellular, and has since become foundational to Apple's networking stack. In many ways, this role was the convergence of everything that came before: cloud infrastructure, data center operations, automation, networking, and large-scale platform engineering, brought together under extraordinary time pressure. Delivering the needed capacity on time, on budget, and at a quality that meaningfully improved the Siri experience for millions of users remains one of the proudest achievements of my career.

Truveo was one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. I joined as the first outside resource brought in by the two founders, initially as a Scientific Advisory Board member, helping design and scale the video search infrastructure before the company was acquired by AOL in January 2006. What followed was five and a half years of extraordinary growth. I built the Truveo Cloud from the ground up and was promoted to Vice President in 2008, leading Operations, the API Developer Program, and Mobile Software Development. Over that period we scaled the platform to 1,700 Linux systems, indexed over 750 million videos, and handled 3.3 billion monthly queries, while growing the team from 6 to 37 people. The API platform became one of the most widely used video search services on the web, powering 600+ active partner accounts including Microsoft Live Video Search, MSN, CNET, Univision, SFGate, Orange, and Tiscali, reaching over 70 million unique visitors per month at peak. Beyond infrastructure, I closed key business development deals, contributed to the iPhone app, and sold Truveo's first Video Sponsored Links campaigns, helping establish the ad monetization model. One of the things I'm most proud of is successfully integrating Truveo into AOL's broader product ecosystem while preserving the startup culture, creativity, and velocity that made the team exceptional in the first place.

Knight Ridder was the second-largest newspaper publisher in the US, owning 31 dailies and operating the Real Cities network across 100+ local news markets, and facing the existential pressure of a declining print business. Transformed Knight Ridder's traditional enterprise infrastructure into a SaaS-style model at a pivotal moment: migrated to hosted data centers, replaced legacy WAN with internet-based VPN infrastructure to reduce costs and improve performance, and delivered high-speed internet access to journalists and staff across 31 daily newspapers and 100+ local news markets. Managed a team of 17 direct reports spanning Network, Telecom, Systems & Storage, Messaging, Security, and Compliance, with indirect leadership across 200+ infrastructure staff company-wide. Held capital approval authority for all KR technology infrastructure projects and co-developed the consolidated transformation model to re-engineer the broader technology organization.

CommerceNet was a pioneering internet standards organization that evolved into a startup incubator and B2B web services platform, operating at the intersection of early e-commerce infrastructure and enterprise collaboration. As Director of Operations reporting to the COO, built and led a team of FTEs and outsourced resources to design and operate the hosted infrastructure underpinning CommerceNet's B2B offerings. Defined and launched the Self-Provisioning Exchange, a hosted platform enabling business process coordination and collaboration across enterprise networks. Developed and sold three commercial services, colocation, hosting, and workplace services, to member companies and incubation-stage startups. Also led a full modernization of corporate IT, consolidating dozens of legacy NT4.0 systems into a streamlined Microsoft Server 2003, Exchange 2003, and RedHat Linux environment, a significant operational cleanup that freed the organization to focus on its core platform work.

Bang Networks was a Sequoia and Atlas-funded startup delivering high-performance messaging and integration technology for media and financial services, and one of the more technically ambitious companies of the early internet era. Joined as Director of Network Operations and was promoted to Director of Operations reporting to the CEO, taking on expanded responsibility across Network Services, Customer Support, Appliance Engineering, QA, and IT as the company pivoted its business model three times in three years. Built and operated five production data centers architected as Internet Overlay Networks with full BGP peering, each capable of handling 1 million concurrent users, managing 200+ Linux servers, Cisco Cat6500 switches with Layer 7 load balancing, F5 Big/IP, 3DNS, and SSL accelerators. This was cloud-scale infrastructure before cloud infrastructure had a name. Designed and shipped two versions of a hardware messaging appliance. Built a QA organization that developed and automated a comprehensive Java-based integration test suite, significantly improving product robustness. Part of the core team that landed Fidelity Investments as the company's first product customer. One of the defining moments: following 9/11, stepped in to rescue GovPX, a critical Wall Street financial data network, by personally participating in the redesign and implementation of the solution, and restructuring the support organization to operate on Wall Street hours. Turned a failing deployment into a success under extraordinary circumstances.

Senterprise was an Application Service Provider that delivered turnkey Internet operating platforms for demand generation, fulfillment, tracking and billing for mid-sized companies. Joined Senterprise at the seed stage as one of the early dot-com era's true cloud computing pioneers, before the term 'cloud' existed. As Software as a Service (Saas) Provider delivering turnkey internet operating platforms, Senterprise was doing in 2000 what the industry wouldn't broadly adopt for another decade. Built and led the team responsible for infrastructure and application platforms from scratch, leveraging 1U server architecture to maximize density and efficiency at a time when most companies were still running full-rack hardware. Served as co-product manager on the eServices/CRM product, bridging the gap between infrastructure and product. Managed consulting engagements while simultaneously scaling the team and platform.

As VP of Network Engineering at Banc of America Securities -Investment Banking Tech Boutique- led the strategy and engineering teams across four critical infrastructure domains (WAN, LAN, Voice, and Facilities) for one of the largest financial institutions in the country. Managed the complex, high-stakes infrastructure underpinning two active trading floors, where network downtime is measured in financial loss per second. Co-directed the build-out of a 38-node ATM network, a large-scale, high-speed intrabank backbone that represented cutting-edge financial network architecture at the time. Contributed to the trading floor buildout at 9 West 57th Street in New York and managed a network-wide migration to OSPF routing, modernizing the core switching and routing infrastructure at the iconic Transamerica building in San Francisco.

Planning, implementation, and management of the global communications infrastructure (Data, voice, video). Managed one of the largest global enterprise networks in the software industry at the time, overseeing 60+ connected locations across multiple continents via frame relay and satellite, years before cloud infrastructure or MPLS existed. In 1997, led the establishment of Autodesk's offices in China and India at a time when very few Western tech companies had an operational presence in either market. Executed a strategic outsourcing of network operations to HP's Network Operations Center in Atlanta, managing the vendor relationship while transitioning personally from hands-on operations into a broader architecture and strategy role. This HP partnership extended to hardware infrastructure supporting a global SAP rollout, one of the more complex enterprise deployments of the era. Also contributed to the enterprise-wide rollout of MS Exchange and SCOPUS, a bug tracking/support systems in collaboration with product engineering and support teams.

In the early days of the commercial internet, architected and deployed EA's first global TCP/IP network: connecting offices across North America (Redwood City, Austin, Boulder, Vancouver, etc.), London, and Tokyo. Registered EA.com, a Class-B IP Network, and established EA's first internet presence at a time when fewer than 1,000 .com domains existed. Implemented global TDM voice/data/video infrastructure spanning multiple continents, laying the communications foundation for what would become one of the world's largest game publishers.

Master's Thesis: "National Research Network Security" CNRS - UREC Unité Réseaux du CNRS Université P. & M. Curie PARIS FRANCE https://www.cnrs.fr/en/the-cnrs In the early 90s, France launched a landmark initiative to interconnect all national research centers and link them to the internet. At CNRS-UREC (Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris), before cybersecurity was a defined discipline, I was tasked with studying the security implications of this national network. I structured confidentiality levels for participants, identified vulnerabilities, and proposed solutions: a body of work that became my Master's thesis, circulated to research department heads across the country.