Michaël Garrez

Senior Engineering Director

Salary / Daily rate

Lille, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Remote only

Skills

PHPClean ArchitectureBackend DevelopmentGolangMongoDBRedisSymfonyEvent Driven ArchitectureNextAWS LambdaSoftware CraftsmanshipMicroservicesReactLaravelReduxGoogle Cloud PlatformAmazon EC2RabbitMQGoogle BigQuerySQL databasesAWSElasticsearch

Languages

DutchEnglishFrench

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.

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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

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

ITIL Foundation Level

Issued: Oct 2020

Certified by PeopleCert

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