
Michaël Garrez
Senior Engineering Director
Salary / Daily rate
Lille, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Engineering Director with 10+ years of experience, scaling teams from 5 to 30+ engineers across multiple countries. Proven track record in building high-performing engineering departments and implementing robust DevOps practices. Specialized in engineering management, Agile methodologies, and cloud infrastructure, offering strategic leadership to drive technical excellence and team growth.
Work experience
Engineering Director
Ankorstore
Nov 2021 - Present
5 years
Engineering Director of the Developer Experience Tribe: - Scaled from 5 to 30 individual contributors (Software engineers & DevOps) - 4 squads
Engineering Director
Open Assessment Technologies S.A.
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 9 months
Luxembourg
- Provides insight on and oversight of methodology, technology choices and best practices; - Removes impediments that block or slow down the Engineering team with the goal to maximize Engineering productivity; - Works with our Product and Project Management Organisations to continuously improve operational procedures based on Scrum, Agile and Continuous Integration processes; - Interfaces with our Cloud Operations Team and leads the Release & Branching scheme design across several Agile Product teams; - Understands the technical requirements of OAT’s worldwide customer base, works with cross-functional teams to set the direction of our future product and service offerings; - Recruits and onboards a team of highly talented, top-performing engineers based across various offices.
Docler Holding Luxembourg
May 2016 - Jan 2019
2 years 9 months
Luxembourg
Engineering Manager
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
1 year 10 months
Luxembourg
- Growing the department from 15 to 30 software engineers dispatched in 7 teams in 3 different countries (Hungary, Luxembourg and Italy); - Translation of the company goals into achievable milestones and monitoring these milestones completion with the project management team; - Conception of the new Agile and cross-functional teams organization; - Conception of the new continuous integration pipeline with the team leaders; - Resolution of any impediment met by the team leaders (or the teams); - Development of a software engineering culture based on excellence with all the software engineers; - Evaluation and career management of the team leaders (and the teams); - Definition of the technical best practices with the software engineers; - Definition of the recruitment process and recruitment and onboarding a team of highly talented, top-performing engineers based across various offices.
Lead PHP Developer
May 2016 - May 2017
1 year 1 month
Luxembourg
- Lead developer of 2 teams of respectively 5 and 7 people dedicated to the conception of an API set for the outside customers and the development of an affiliation website; - Introduction of several new management processes (team mood, bi-weekly internal technical talks, conferences planning,, ...); - Introduction of a strategy to monitor and reduce the technical debt of the product; - Incremental modernisation of thetechnical codebase; - Introduction of an RFC concept in the team to allow each team member to introduce new ideas, new directives that would be voted on and eventually implemented;
Lancaster Investment
Jun 2015 - May 2016
1 year
Luxembourg
Lead Developer
Feb 2016 - May 2016
4 months
Luxembourg
Web Developer
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
10 months
Luxembourg
Web Developer
Digital Junkies Agency
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
10 months
Canterbury, UK
Web developer
ECLYPSIA LLP
Feb 2014 - Oct 2014
9 months
Canterbury, UK
General maintenance and new development for Eclypsia LLP
Technologue en imagerie médicale
CHU Brugmann
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
5 months
Education
Institut Paul Lambin
Bachelor's degree
2010 - 2013
3 years 2 months
Licenses & certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Issued: Nov 2020
ITIL Foundation Level
Issued: Oct 2020