Jean-Baptiste Escoyez

Regate offers an all-in-one platform that centralizes and automates financial and accounting management, providing time-saving solutions for the daily tasks of financial staff. As the Chief Technology Officer at Regate, I've contributed to scaling the team in a high-growth environment. Key Achievements: ✨ Team Growth: Led the expansion of the engineering team from 20 to 50 members, fostering a collaborative environment for innovation and excellence. 💻 Introducing Squads: Pioneered the implementation of the squads concept, enhancing teamwork and efficiency within the engineering department. 🔄 Workflow Optimization: Organized and streamlined the workflow for developers, optimizing collaboration with the product team and Quality Assurance. 🧠 AI Project Oversight: Supervised three projects in artificial intelligence, contributing to Regate's technological advancements.

I founded Flexio with a mission to automate paperwork, building it from scratch and overseeing all aspects of the tool, including design, front-end, and back-end development. I successfully launched in the market, acquiring a rapidly growing customer base. I developed skills in communication, cash managemen, and agile iteration.

Prospect.io is a sales automation platform that provides tools for sales professionals and teams to streamline their outreach efforts. The platform offers features such as email prospecting, lead generation, and CRM integration. I joined as a CTO and partner in the bootstrapped venture. I streamlined the application for scalability on Heroku in order to handle our hundreds of thousands emails per day. I also built and led the technical team, growing from solo to 8 collaborators in two years.

As "Hacker in Residence," I led MVP development at e-founders (now Hexa), focusing on a live support platform for popular applications like Excel and Photoshop. This innovative platform, built from scratch, utilized WebRTC. I oversaw full-stack development, utilizing Ruby on Rails for the backend and Ember.js for the frontend.

Checkthis was a social network that allows users to create and share web pages for various purposes, such as event invitations, product promotions, job offers and more. As Lead Backend Developer at Checkthis, I cultivated a delivery-oriented approach while working on my first single-page application. Working within a small team alongside a web designer and a front-end developer, I led backend decisions. The role involved efficiently implementing new features while maintaining users data, emphasizing a pragmatic balance between innovation and system stability.

Belighted, a web agency specializing in Ruby on Rails development, served as the foundation of my professional journey. This experience accelerated my immersion into diverse aspects of web application development, including product design, software architecture, and project management. Beyond technical skills, it offered invaluable insights into client relations and team management. This experience shaped me as a professional web developer, entrepreneur, and manager. It allowed me to hone my technical expertise while gaining profound insights into the operational and business dimensions of a company.