David Cros Piezzoli
Senior Engineering Manager | Rust & Cloud Architecture
Salary / Daily rate
Bastia, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I am a hands-on/off technical leader with a strong product affinity and a solid experience within companies of various sizes and across diverse sectors (social media, biotech, marketing, banking, e-commerce). I help companies achieve their goals at every stage of their development. Besides my professional experience, I'm a singer in the Corsican polyphonic choir A Ricuccata (a cappella singing / www.aricuccata.fr) for nearly ten years. Yes, no kidding 🤩.
Work experience
Chief Technology Officer
DELTAGee
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
DELTAGee's mission is to assist all plant breeding scientists in making the best possible data-driven decisions and serving their markets more effectively and efficiently. DELTAGee's innovative solutions come from combining deep understanding of genetics and breeding with tremendous skills and experience in statistics, mathematical modeling, and operations research. My aim is to build a highly efficient and scalable platform that empowers our customers to harness DELTAGee's advanced science and technology. This platform enables them to design breeding projects and apply DELTAGee’s cutting-edge mathematical models to their data, driving impactful, data-driven results. My role spans the full product lifecycle, from initial concept to delivery, encompassing product design, technical architecture, cloud engineering, and CI/CD processes.
Jellysmack
May 2018 - Dec 2023
5 years 8 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Tribe tech lead / Engineering manager 🦄
Apr 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 9 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
As the head of an application development team, I led the design and implementation of onboarding and financial reporting solutions for video content creators on social platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat...). Our onboarding application was designed to provide an optimal user experience while minimizing the time needed before operational management of creators. Our financial reporting application provides creators with accurate and up-to-date information about their revenue and financial performance. We designed this application to be an optimal communication and exchange channel between Jellysmack and its creators. - Management of a full remote team (France, Spain, Ukraine). Ensures cohesion and well-being. - Animation of the team life, rituals, feeling of belonging. Organizational methodology (Scrum, Kanban, ...). - Individual follow-up of the tech team members (performance, objectives, career, ...). Regular 1:1 and annual interview. - Recruitment of new engineers with the support of HR. Selection, interviews, ... - In charge of building and following the roadmap according to the business needs. - Carries the technical vision. Guarantor of good practices. - Ensures the day-to-day delivery in a logic of continuous improvement. Controls the technical debt. Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Python, Rust, ReactJS, ViewJS, AWS (Redshift, Aurora, S3), GitLab
Lead Developer (Rust enthusiast) 🦄
May 2018 - May 2022
4 years 1 month
Hybrid
As the head of several teams, I led the development of a data collection architecture to track the activity of millions of video creators on major social platforms, such as YouTube, Snapchat, as well as other major platforms. We collected billions of metrics to provide valuable insights into the trends and performance of our creators. In addition, I also oversaw the development of internal applications dedicated to the management and monitoring of social content creators. These applications were designed to help Jellysmack better understand and manage the video content creator ecosystem. - Manage a team of developers. Ensures cohesion and well-being. - Animation of team life, rituals, sense of belonging. Organizational methodology (Scrum, Kanban, ...). - Individual follow-up of the tech team members (performance, objectives, career, ...). Regular 1:1 and annual interview. - Recruitment of new engineers with the support of HR. Selection, interviews, ... - In charge of building and following the roadmap according to the business needs. - Carries the technical vision. Guarantor of good practices. - Ensures the day-to-day delivery in a logic of continuous improvement. Controls the technical debt. Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Rust, NodeJS, ViewJS, AWS (Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Aurora, S3), GitLab
Chief Technology Officer
Art et Styles (masalledebain.com)
Feb 2016 - May 2018
2 years 4 months
Bastia, France
Art & Styles is a leading French specialist in bathroom equipment, offering products both in-store and through its e-commerce platform. My role at Art & Styles was to lead the IT team and develop business applications to support and accelerate the company’s growth.
Associate Manager
Avenseo
Oct 2010 - Jan 2016
5 years 4 months
Paris, France
I co-founded Avenseo which was the first French company to offer a split testing solution (A/B tests, mutlivariate tests) and thus allow its clients to optimize their conversion tunnel pages. Our platform has been used by many large companies. During this experience, I actively participated in the development of the solution but also in the marketing and sales. - Functional and technical design of the A/B and multivariate testing platform. - Definition of the marketing plan and construction of the offer. - Definition of the commercial strategy. - Follow-up of the R&D roadmap. Some of our clients : La Redoute, Decathlon, Kiabi, San Marina, Norauto, Vertbaudet, Salomon,...
Responsible for the pole of competence (within the ISD)
TirGroupé chèques cadeaux by Sodexo
Sep 2008 - Oct 2010
2 years 2 months
92800 Puteaux, France
At TirGroupé (a subsidiary of the Sodexo group), I was in charge of the development team. I managed the development of several services and applications, such as the web services platform and the dematerialization solution for voucher reimbursement. - Management of a team of internal and external developers (staffing, workload, technical support, implementation of methods and processes). - Ensuring the technical consistency of the IS. - Design of the architecture of the new business applications (business web services platform, paperless ticket reimbursement solution).
Manager and technical officer
IOGenic
Aug 2002 - Aug 2008
6 years 1 month
Bastia, France
I co-founded IOGenic which developed an innovative content formatting solution. This experience was a real opportunity for me to get out of my technological comfort zone and to acquire strong entrepreneurial skills. Managing the company. Management of a team of developers. Design and development of WEB applications. Some clients: BNP Paribas, AIG, Prisma Presse, Banque Accord,...
Software engineer
Fluxus
Feb 2000 - Jul 2002
2 years 6 months
Paris, France
At Fluxus (ex FraneNet), I held the position of development engineer where I contributed to the creation and launch of the first e-commerce and online banking websites of large French companies (La Redoute, BanqueDirecte).At Fluxus (ex FraneNet), I held the position of development engineer where I contributed to the creation and launch of the first e-commerce and online banking websites of large French companies (La Redoute, BanqueDirecte). Skills : Software development
Software engineer
Sinfo
Jan 1999 - Mar 2000
1 year 3 months
93400 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Having held the position of development engineer in this service company, I quickly had the mission to integrate the teams of the company Fluxus in which I was then hired.Having held the position of development engineer in this service company, I quickly had the mission to integrate the teams of the company Fluxus in which I was then hired. Skills : Software development
Education
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
DESS, Computing, Robotics
1997 - 1998
1 year 2 months
Pierre and Marie Curie University
MST, Computing
1995 - 1997
2 years 2 months