Benoît Libeau
Senior Software R&D Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Île-de-France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Software R&D Manager with 15+ years leading engineering teams and building scalable cloud infrastructure. Successfully managed 50+ engineers and developed 45+ AWS applications serving 25M daily requests for 25K+ robots worldwide. Expert in Python, cloud architecture, and transforming technical visions into market-ready products.
Work experience
Software R&D Manager
Analog Way
Jun 2024 - Present
2 years 5 months
Paris et périphérie
Software R&D Director
SoftBank Robotics Europe
Aug 2021 - Jul 2024
3 years
Paris, France
Engineering Director, running the software development in SBRE. Responsible for 50+ software engineers in a wide range of technical skills, from embedded systems to Android applications and Site Reliability Engineering.
Online Services Director
Softbank Robotics Europe
Nov 2016 - Jul 2024
7 years 9 months
Paris, France
Head of a team with 30+ Engineers (including 3 Managers) * Defining the Product Roadmap of the Online Services interacting with our customers, internal teams and 25K+ robots worldwide - Managing a team of 4 Product Owners - Collecting user and business needs from Japan, EMEA, US and China teams - Coordinating multi-disciplinary projects (software and hardware R&D, UX, manufac- turing, sales, support and repair) * Developing and running 45+ Applications on Amazon Web Services - Backends in Python serving REST APIs or AngularJS and React frontends - Infrastructure-as-code in Terraform, provisioning and deployment with Ansible - Serving 25 million HTTP requests per day with strong 24/7 constraints * Enforcing Engineering and DevOps best practices with Code Review, Automation, Con- tinuous Integration and Deployment, Post-mortem reviews * Enforcing Agile methodologies for development and project management * Responsible for new hires and subcontractors * Responsible for the team’s budget and C-level reporting and communication
Aldebaran - Softbank Group
Jan 2013 - Jul 2024
11 years 7 months
Région de Paris, France
Manager in the Cloud Team
Jul 2015 - Jul 2024
9 years 1 month
Région de Paris, France
Managed 4 Data Engineers and 2 Product Owners: * Started a Data Science team that created a datalake using AWS S3 and Apache Spark * Product Owner of the Aldebaran Cloud Services * Project Manager of the Alibaba Robotics deployment project
Head of B2B Applications
Jan 2013 - Jul 2024
11 years 7 months
Région de Paris, France
Managed a team of 9 Robot Application Developers * Supervised the implementation of various robotics application development contracts * Support and training for partners discovering our robots * Technical Leader of the Pepper Launch Events
Behaviour Architect in the Studio Team
Aldebaran Robotics
Feb 2012 - Jan 2013
1 year
Région de Paris, France
* Lead Developer in the Autism Solution for Kids NAO website with Django and JQuery * Developed several applications for NAO in Python * Managed several Shows and Conferences starring NAO
R&D Consultant at Sagemcom
ALTEN
May 2009 - Dec 2011
2 years 8 months
92500 Rueil-Malmaison, France
Lead the development of the Livebox Pro V3 “Network Extension” functionality * Using a mesh network of Liveboxes to provide LAN connection over a wider area * Redaction of specifications; Interface with clients and providers * Implemented a first POC in Shell scripts and took part in the industrialization in C/C++
Education
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Master of Computer Science
2007 - 2008
2 years
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancées
Master of Science in Engineering
2004 - 2008
5 years
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