Gaëlle DURIVAULT
Head of Engineering
Salaire / Taux journalier
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Mobilité : Île-de-France
Freelance
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À propos
Introduction
Tech leader, passionate in building strong and collaborative teams, I combine technical expertise and strategic vision to create organizations capable to innovate in the long term. I guide teams while scaling, I set engineering cultures based on collaboration, trust, quality and ownership, and I ensure that technology fully supports the company’s ambition and performance. I'm currently open to a new adventure, as an interim manager to help your company and organization.
Expérience de travail
Head of Engineering
Xpollens
mars 2026 - Présent
8 mois
Paris, France
Freelance
Associé
Team for the Planet
déc. 2022 - Présent
3 ans 11 mois
VP of Engineering
Kolecto
mars 2024 - déc. 2025
1 an 10 mois
Paris, France
- Led the engineering team, scaling from 10 to 50 engineers in 9 months (30 new employees and contractors) - Platform team creation to better structure our infrastructure and help the developers - Managed internal IT and hired the dedicated team (computers management, security policy, tools authorization management, on/off boarding…) - Put in place a collaborative culture, ensuring it stays with the scale : tech radar, conceptions reviews, architecture comity - Technical vision definition with the team : move from the monolithe to a service oriented architecture, migration from serverless to always available services to improve our clients’ experience. - Close collaboration with Crédit Agricole : Kolecto addition to their extra-banking list of services, group standards application (internal security, application security, risk analysis…)
VP of Software Engineering
Dailymotion
sept. 2022 - déc. 2023
1 an 4 mois
Paris, France
- Lead the software engineering team including the advertisement automation platform, B2C applications & B2B products. - Launched the new Dailymotion brand with cutting edge video experience in collaboration with product, quality & design teams. - Put in place with the CTO new on-call procedures and post-mortem culture to improve our operational excellence and maintain high availability. - Rationalized technologies and improved communication across teams to improve efficiency and time to market.
Engineering Director
Solocal
janv. 2020 - juil. 2022
2 ans 7 mois
Paris, France
- Led the B2C then B2B software engineering divisions, overseeing technical direction and high availability initiatives. - Managed a multi-disciplinary team, including hiring, development, and budget handling. - Strategically guided the transformation of Pages Jaunes into a marketplace and rebuilt mobile applications from scratch. - Achieved high availability (>99.95%) of Pages Jaunes, increased the overall audience and maintained a high NPS. - Implemented Agile and DevOps practices in collaboration with other engineering directors. - Developed ClicRDV as a prominent online booking solution. - Led ClicRDV migration from AWS to GCP and to a new Health Data platform provider improving infrastructure cost and maintaining health data compliance in collaboration with the DPO. - Handled an always decreasing budget and worked with offshore and nearshore companies to reinforce the developers’teams.
Engineering Manager
BlaBlaCar
févr. 2017 - déc. 2019
2 ans 11 mois
Région de Paris, France
- Managed iOS, Android, Web, and QA teams, fostering team autonomy and efficient release processes. - Guided team roadmaps in collaboration with product and design. - Mentored young developers, developed team members' careers and reviewed senior engineers' designs, enhancing product quality.
Amazon
sept. 2010 - janv. 2017
6 ans 5 mois
Greater Seattle Area
Software Development Manager
nov. 2015 - janv. 2017
1 an 3 mois
Greater Seattle Area
- Led the Amazon Video Direct team, overseeing video submission and provider experience improvements. - Managed Agile process adoption, enhanced team efficiency, and influenced product decisions. - Reviewed technical designs and ensured scalability.
Software Engineer
avr. 2014 - oct. 2015
1 an 7 mois
Greater Seattle Area
- Maintained Amazon Studios' main website and developed web apps for movie creators. - Led the development of the "storyteller" application for creating storyboards and videos in collaboration with teams in Scotland. - Introduced Agile/Scrum and mentored junior developers.
Software Developoer & Manager
mai 2012 - mars 2014
1 an 11 mois
Seattle, Washington, États-Unis
- Developer then manager of the Kindle team (5), responsible for building a cross-platform framework to render e-books.. - Contributed to hiring, maintained quality, and guided projects to successful completion.
Software Engineer
sept. 2010 - mai 2012
1 an 9 mois
Paris, France
Development of the e-book rendering framework for mobile & desktop Kindle applications: - Multi-platform environment (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Linux) - C++ and mobile native development (obj-C, Java pour Android) - New functionalities design & developmentdéveloppement for existing e-book formats - New proprietary e-book format integration
Software Engineer
FactSet
déc. 2006 - oct. 2010
3 ans 11 mois
Paris, France
- Developed software to collect financial data, both manually and automatically. - Utilized C++, Perl, and Excel plugins to create efficient data collection solutions.
Software Engineer
Bull
déc. 2005 - déc. 2006
1 an 1 mois
Formation
Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
Ingénieur Civil des Mines, Computer Science
2002 - 2005
3 ans 1 mois
Licences et certifications
Scrum master
Délivré le : oct. 2026