Maxime Lemaitre

Senior Cloud Data Engineer | AWS & DataOps

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Data EngineeringAWSdbtTerraformBackend DevelopmentRedisETLBig DataAIMongoDBSQL databasesSQL QueriesPythonElasticsearchAWS LambdaAmazon RedshiftGitSnowflakeGitHubGitLabTableau

Languages

EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

💡 J’aide les entreprises à concevoir des plateformes data modernes, évolutives, fiables et optimisées. J'interviens sur tout le spectre du data engineering, de la conception de la data platform à la modélisation pour répondre aux problématiques métier. 🏗️ Data Platform Architecture 🔧 Data Pipeline Design & Orchestration ⚡ Performance & Costs 📊 Data Delivery & Reliability

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Work experience

Senior Data Engineer

TheForkFreelance

Jan 2026 - Present

10 months

Paris, France

Senior Data Engineer

BelieveFreelance

Jul 2025 - Dec 2025

6 months

Paris, France

As a senior data engineer at Believe, I contributed to the reliability, performance, and scalability of the data platform, ensuring trusted analytics and actionable insights for stakeholders across the organization. - Served as the primary owner for finance datasets, managing 30+ data sources and translating business requirements into reliable, analytics-ready models - Investigated and resolved a production issue affecting Spotify Discovery Mode data, restoring accuracy and stakeholder confidence - Enhanced the TikTok Virality / TuneCore Conversion Funnel pipeline, adding country-level insights and platform-specific dimensions - Identified and fixed 25+ data quality issues, improving accuracy, consistency, and trust in datasets - Suggested and implemented Snowflake optimizations, including query and model refactoring, incremental strategies, and improved warehouse usage, reducing compute waste and improving performance - Strengthened team delivery discipline by improving daily rituals and processes - Acted as a senior technical contributor in design reviews and architectural discussions Tech stack : AWS (lambda/step function/s3/batch), Snowflake, Terraform, Pulumi, Sqitch, Postgres, Gitlab, Docker

Staff Engineer, Data

MadKudu

May 2023 - May 2025

2 years 1 month

Paris, France

As a staff engineer at MadKudu, I was responsible for the data platform and the AWS cloud infrastructure. As a relay with the CTO and the product team, I have - Designed and built the MadKudu copilot data pipeline supporting more than 100+ Customers - Added several new data sources into MadKudu data platform, namely social signals, job changes, job opening and HG Insights data, adding more signals to Madkudu platform - Designed and initiated a data api allowing faster time to query data using motherduck and duckdb - Optimized the AWS cloud infrastructure costs, reducing monthly costs by 40% after two months - Maintained and improved the legacy lead scoring pipelines improving the accuracy and trust in the produced data, by fixing more than 500+ data issues in total - Managed AWS cloud infrastructure supporting 15+ applications, improving availability and reducing deployment times to minutes using Terraform and automated CI/CD pipelines - Designed and implemented a streaming ingestion pipeline for tracking analytics - Lead 4 T-shaped teams by managing roadmaps, milestones, team rituals, exchanges with product. Tech stack : aws, nodejs, redshift, athena, terraform, dbt, airflow, duckdb, postres, dlt, github, docker

Dashlane

Jan 2017 - May 2023

6 years 5 months

Hybrid

Lead Data Engineer

Feb 2021 - May 2023

2 years 4 months

Hybrid

Led the technical direction and day-to-day operations of the data engineering team, overseeing the evolution of Dashlane's modern data platform. - Directed the migration from a legacy data platform to a modern ELT-based stack centered around a cloud data warehouse - Owned the data platform roadmap, balancing stakeholder priorities across Finance, Marketing, Product, and Sales - Led the secure rebuild of product analytics capabilities, enabling reliable and governed access to product usage insights - Owned the data infrastructure by implementing a GitOps workflow and actively managing platform costs to ensure scalability and efficiency - Established foundational data engineering best practices, including version control, CI/CD pipelines, and data validation workflows - Managed a team of 6 data engineers with 0 turnover during tenure - Recruited and onboarded 4 data engineers (including 1 intern) and 2 freelancers Tech Stack: Airflow, dbt, Athena, Redshift, Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, Docker, GitLab, OpenSearch, Airbyte, Hightouch

Senior Data Engineer

Sep 2019 - Jan 2021

1 year 5 months

Hybrid

First data engineer in the centralized Data & Analytics team, working closely with data analysts to maintain and evolve the legacy data platform for improved reliability and scalability. - Migrated the data platform to dedicated AWS accounts, isolating analytics from backend services for improved security and autonomy - Optimized key data pipelines, reducing data landing time for core assets by 60% - Onboarded and mentored 2 data engineers, helping scale the team and accelerate delivery - Collaborated with security teams to implement data access controls and audit logging in line with GDPR and SOC2 requirements - Partnered with stakeholders to define KPIs and ensure trustworthy self-serve analytics - Ran POCs and evaluated new tools (e.g., reverse ETL, cataloging, cost optimization) that laid the groundwork for the modern stack Tech Stack: Node.js, Athena, Airflow, AWS Lambda, GitLab, OpenSearch, MSSQL Server, Tableau

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jan 2017 - Oct 2019

2 years 10 months

Hybrid

Joined the central Server Team to drive platform scalability, DevOps practices, and feature security for a global password management product. - Implemented a new secure data-sharing mechanism, aligning with security architecture guidelines and enabling safer password sharing between teams and users - Designed and deployed the Dark Web Monitoring feature, making over 50 TB of compressed breach data accessible to end-users - Upgraded the security breach detection pipeline, improving the accuracy and timeliness of user breach notifications - Won two internal hackathons — on master password breach detection and SSO authentication — both of which were later released to all users - Maintained and enhanced high-availability backend services following security best practices, supporting 200M+ daily API requests - Acted as Scrum Master for multiple cross-functional feature teams, driving agile delivery and team coordination Tech Stack: Node.js, Elasticsearch, Redshift, MSSQL Server, MySQL, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Bitbucket

Software Architect

Betclic Everest Group

Mar 2011 - Dec 2016

5 years 10 months

Région de Paris, France · Hybrid

Joined a rapidly growing sports betting company transitioning from startup to scale-up. Focused on improving platform reliability, scalability, and performance during major live sporting events. - Promoted performance-driven development through code audits, engineering workshops, and systematic incident post-mortems - Built and maintained a load testing platform, enabling stress testing of 10+ microservices ahead of each release - Led the Web Performance Optimization initiative, significantly reducing time to first paint and enhancing UX under peak load - Served as the main liaison between engineering, DBA, and SysOps teams to align infrastructure with application demands - Designed and implemented local and distributed caching strategies (e.g., Redis), reducing 99th percentile response times by up to 90% Tech Stack: .NET, JavaScript, MSSQL Server, Redis, Node.js, Xamarin, Angular, Microsoft Load Testing Framework

Senior Software Engineer

SQLI

Dec 2007 - Dec 2010

3 years 1 month

Région de Paris, France

Worked as a consultant embedded in multiple teams across large organizations, providing expertise on performance optimization, database design, and legacy system modernization. - TF1 Publicité (12 months) – Maintained and enhanced the core application responsible for managing TV ad inventory across all TF1 channels - Sanofi (2 months) – Conducted a full audit and refactoring of the labeling system used across all pharmaceutical factories; work led to a long-term modernization initiative managed by SQLI - Amundi (15 months) – Contributed to the redesign of the asset management platform, improving maintainability and system performance. Tech Stack: .NET, Web Forms, WinForms, Oracle, MSSQL Server, VB6, SSIS, SSRS, Perforce

Software Developer

ISAGRI

Dec 2005 - Dec 2007

2 years 1 month

69340 Francheville, France

Joined a 15+ member engineering team as a junior developer in my first professional software role, gaining hands-on experience across diverse systems and technologies. - Maintained and modernized legacy .NET and PHP applications used by agricultural clients - Designed and led the implementation of new features across multiple services, improving user engagement - Owned the end-to-end notification system (email, SMS), enhancing communication reliability - Served as the technical point of contact for key French and Dutch customers, supporting onboarding and issue resolution - Delivered in-person technical training and presentations to end-users and senior stakeholders Tech Stack: .NET, Windows Mobile, MSSQL Server, JavaScript, PHP, Web technologies


Education

Institut supérieur d'électronique et du numérique

Master's degree

2000 - 2005

5 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Dagster Essentials

Issued: May 2025

Certified by Dagster Labs

Dagster & dbt

Issued: May 2025

Certified by Dagster Labs

dlt ELT Advanced Specialist

Issued: Mar 2025

Certified by dltHub

SnowPro Core Certification

Issued: Mar 2025

Certified by Snowflake

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

Issued: Mar 2025

Certified by HashiCorp

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Issued: Mar 2025

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

dbt Developer

Issued: Feb 2025

Certified by dbt Labs

Astronomer Certification for Apache Airflow Fundamentals

Issued: Oct 2024

Certified by Astronomer

Astronomer Certification DAG Authoring for Apache Airflow

Issued: Oct 2024

Certified by Astronomer

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