
Javier Venegas
Principal Software Engineer | Tech Leadership
Salaire / Taux journalier
92330 Sceaux, France
Freelance
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Introduction
Principal Software Engineer with 20+ years building scalable systems and leading engineering teams. VP of Engineering expertise across startups and scale-ups, specializing in DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), and agile transformations. Expert in architecting API platforms, microservices, and team leadership—delivering technical roadmaps that drive business growth and operational excellence.
Expérience de travail
CTO Part-time
LUDOCAREFreelance
oct. 2023 - Présent
3 ans 1 mois
Lyon, France
Define the Technological vision support the company long-term product and business objectives. Identify emerging technologies to strengthen the long-term technological and business objectives. Definition of the Carreer Ladders, to create a clear personal improvement goals and ensure technical growth in the engineering teams. Define recruitment process, for tech profiles, to increase the quality/fit of the prospects (review process, clarify score cards, define must-have skills, etc). Mentor Tech Leaders. Define the infrastructure, telemetry policies and service level objectives. Define system level architecture and oversees it's implementation. Implementation of the infrastructure with pulumi. Define the container orchestration strategy and implemented it.
Sr Principal Cloud Engineer
Non Disclosed InformationFreelance
juil. 2025 - mars 2026
9 mois
Paris, France
Advise the company on the infrastructure restructuring strategy to implement a DevSecOps policy. Implement the new infrastructure using Infrastructure as Actual Code (IaaC). Define and implement OpenTelemetry policies (grafana stack). Define and implement platform security policies. Define the Cloud Engineer career path and help recruit the in-house Cloud Engineer in charge. Address current security issues within the client’s bare-metal infrastructure. Help document the current inventory of cloud assets and define governance policies for those assets. Assist in troubleshooting and fixing MariaDB database issues, as well as backup and disaster recovery scripts. Deploy MariaDB replication.
VP of Engineering
Jus Mundi
déc. 2021 - janv. 2024
2 ans 2 mois
Definition of the Career Ladders, to create clear personal improvement goals and ensure technical growth in the engineering teams Define the recruitment process to increase the quality/fit of the prospects (review process, clarify score cards, define must-have skills, etc) Reorganization of the engineering teams to improve flow and focus Manage Engineering (3 tech leads, 11 engineers) and coach them in software engineering practices (enforcement of RFC, clean code, system design, etc) Mentor Tech Leaders and fast-growing profiles on technical practices and leadership Define the Atomic Design System and the strategy around web GUI to ensure contract/behavior solidity, and implementation Define the container orchestration strategy and the roadmap for the implementation, and implementation Define telemetry strategy Define the strategy for the data pipelines with Temporal for a durable execution of complex workflows, and implementation
VP of Engineering
Startup Flow
oct. 2020 - oct. 2021
1 an 1 mois
Paris, France
Principal Engineer and Delivery manager of impact teams. Review the current architecture and define the technical roadmap. Development of services with a high level of complexity. Recruitment for the Engineering Team. Deployment of a Kanban/Lean Production Pipeline (From Product Definition to Deployment). Restructuration of the Product Team and the Product Processes/methods: Deployment process for the Product team (Discovery, Analysis, Prioritization, and Delivery).
VP of Engineering
MonBuilding
nov. 2019 - oct. 2020
1 an
Région de Paris, France
CTO
BTP Consultants
sept. 2017 - déc. 2019
2 ans 4 mois
Région de Paris, France
Engineer and delivery manager of feature teams (5 Team of 5). BTP-Consultant API-Plateform architecture design. Leading the Machine Learning and Deep learning products. Involved, as well as decision making regarding the Digital Transformation Strategy. Deployment of agile methods (Kaizen, Kanban, Dojos, etc.) and some DDD tools to get a better insight regarding every delivery process. Leading the DevSecOps policies and enforce/deploy them: delivery pipeline (CircleCi, Terraform, AWS), Monitoring (Prometheus, Jaeger, and Graphana) Lead the research subjects (CUI and AI). My team and I are responsible for all server development (mostly in Nodejs, Python, and Elixir). Technical overview of the VR team ( mostly Unity).
Architecte Agile
Ergelis
août 2016 - août 2017
1 an 1 mois
Région de Paris, France
Technical management of a feature Team in Kanban/Lean (team of 7). Migration from SVN to Git, and enforcement of the git-flow. Deployment of agile methods (Kaizen, Kanban, Dojos, etc.) and some DDD tools to get a better insight into the delivery process. Enforcement of clean code and TDD rules and overview of the CI server deployment (Jenkins). React-Native app development. Led the roadmap to switch from a monolithic architecture (Cake Php/C++) to a service-oriented architecture (Kong, Symfony 3, Python, and C++) and a SPA frontend (React/Redux). MongoDB deployement to enforce CQRS policies. Lead the DevSecOps policies, to containerize all services (Docker) on Azure, orchestrated by Ansible/Prometheus/Zipkin.
Lead Developper
Kernix
nov. 2015 - juil. 2016
9 mois
Région de Paris, France
Technical Lead (team of 5), as well as consulting for Agile Method deployment/enforcement/betterment. Development (Symfony 3, Php, Backbone)
Tech Lead / CTO
Edu-tech Startup
janv. 2014 - mai 2015
1 an 5 mois
91380 Chilly-Mazarin, France
Responsible for all IT services (Operation/Support and Development). Team recruitment Deployment of DDD process/metrics to drive the delivery and anomaly resolution processes. Development of a Service-Oriented API-Platform (PHP, Python) with an Angular Front-end.
CGI
sept. 2006 - déc. 2013
7 ans 4 mois
41439 Cañada Rosal, Séville, Espagne
Engineer manager
oct. 2008 - déc. 2013
5 ans 3 mois
41439 Cañada Rosal, Séville, Espagne
Follow multiple Feature Teams (Kanban/Lean and Scrumban) with DDD methods. Agile Coaching, as well as technical mentoring. Architecture and development ( mostly Php, Nodejs, Python). Product overview and contract negotiation.
Tech Lead
sept. 2006 - oct. 2008
2 ans 2 mois
41439 Cañada Rosal, Séville, Espagne
Lead a Feature Team (Kanban/Lean). Developer Php, Nodejs and Python.
Fullstack Developper
WebAgency
déc. 2003 - août 2006
2 ans 9 mois
41439 Cañada Rosal, Séville, Espagne
Developer Php and Python.
Formation
McGill University
Master, Computer science
2003 - 2006
3 ans 1 mois
Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
2000 - 2003
3 ans 1 mois