Pierre-Alain Hunout

Consulting firm specializing in technology leadership, interim management, software delivery transformation, architecture, and pragmatic AI adoption within engineering organizations. Engagements with large enterprises as an Interim CTO, Head of Engineering, and Architect, combining strategic vision, leadership, architectural expertise, and hands-on execution. Supporting executives and engineering teams in structuring organizations, securing delivery roadmaps, modernizing architectures, industrializing software delivery, and implementing practical AI and automation solutions.

- Leadership and transformation of an IT department responsible for inter-application integration and data flows. - Management of a multidisciplinary team (architects, Java / Apache Camel developers, Informatica ETL specialists, and project managers), overseeing the backlog, capacity, velocity, SLAs, budget, and delivery quality. - Industrialization through Jira and GitLab CI/CD, standardization of engineering practices, and modernization of a legacy integration platform into a modular, cloud-ready Spring Boot architecture. Development of reusable starters and libraries. - Leveraging Generative AI and Codex to accelerate legacy integration flow migrations, internal tooling development, and the creation of business process automation solutions. - Contribution to IT strategy, application portfolio rationalization, and initiatives around sovereign cloud and containerization. - Oversight of contractual matters and HR management within the department.

Technical leadership of the team responsible for maintaining and enhancing a business-critical ERP system in the instrumentation industry. Design of application architectures and Spring Boot / REST services, API integration, and industrialization of software delivery using Azure DevOps. Coaching and training the development team on automating development processes to improve delivery reliability and quality. Implementation of an Azure Landing Zone. Integration of Okta as an Identity Provider (IdP) with legacy systems. Collaboration with Product teams to analyze user requirements, design technical solutions, and oversee their implementation.

- Leadership of a product-driven Digital Factory managing five digital products and approximately 25 internal and external technical professionals. - Team management and mentoring, recruitment, performance evaluation, and ongoing performance monitoring. - Definition of the technical strategy and cross-functional coordination with Product (POs / PMs), Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations teams. - Reduction of legacy technical debt, implementation of automated testing practices, and acceleration of product development through No-Code solutions: three MVPs developed and deployed using FlutterFlow. - Facilitation of technical workshops, retrospectives, ideation sessions, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.

- Transformation of a Digital Factory responsible for consumer-facing mobile applications in the corporate catering and education sectors. - Assessment of the organization, restructuring of the team into squads, and implementation of agile delivery practices focused on incremental value creation. - Introduction of Scrum practices, improvement of team velocity, and facilitation of technical and functional workshops with developers, Product Owners, and business stakeholders. - Key achievement: increased release frequency from quarterly to monthly, leveraging Octopus Merge and subsequently Gitflow. - Definition of a roadmap to reduce technical debt related to omnichannel APIs. - Preparation of a backend legacy modernization program, targeting deployment on Microsoft Azure Cloud with a modernized technology stack.

As a backend team leader, I manage 10 developers in 3 different teams in order to maintain and develop the bike sharing service system.

As a backend team leader in charge of a large number of backend components of the ecommerce website Darty.com I had numerous roles such as : IT projects coordination, team management (from 4 to 8 developers), insure live system support, define and schedule system maintenance and new features development, advise stakeholder on eCommerce IT solutions, promote agile methodology and continuous improvement mindset. Main projects I leaded : • Integration of Mistergooddeal in Darty.com backend components. • Integration with SellSecure, a new fraud detection partner. • Migration of payment implementation from SIPS 1.0 to SIPS 2.0 (PCI-DSS). • Integration with Lengow in order to develop external marketplace activity. • UX and backend redesign of customer account zone. • Development of new features on marketplace integration and workflows (Mirakl). • Creation of a new component in order to switch from one marketplace partner to another. Agile transformation I leaded : • Establish a scrum management methodology such as daily meeting, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint review. • Explain to stakeholder the notion of business value in order to prioritize feature development. • Implement a merge request process with code review. • Keep an indulgence environment. • Promote continuous improvement mindset. Main tasks : • Project management : cost estimation, impacts analysis, kick-off, sprint planning, follow-up, stakeholders communication. • Release management and systems supervision. • Level 2 Support : live bug analysis during critical time. • Team management : recruitment, training, coaching, technical support. Main stack : Java 1.8, Jenkins, Git, Websphere Commerce, JIRA, BitBucket, DB2, Linux, Rest, DropWizard, ELK, Grafana.

In a Devops and agile team composed of 5 developers and one product owner, I contributed to the development of new features that deliver value to the users and customers of the fundraising platform known as Alvarum. Main tasks : • Code new features. • Create new components such as the charity back office. • Code refactoring using AngularJS, Spring MVC and REST standard. • Mule ESB integration to ensure data synchronization across different systems. • Maintain deployment and monitoring tools. • Servers administration, supervision, live system support and delivery. Main stack : JAVA 1.7, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Tomcat 7, MySQL 5.5, Jenkins, STS, Grails, Bootstrap 3.0, AngularJS, JQuery, REST, MuleESB, CentOS, Nagios, Cloudbees.

Design, code and test software systems over different projects for telecom operator : • SFR : Information system for M2M fleet management of the SFR’s B2B customers. • APNF : Information system for landline phone number portability. • SFR : Extranet that provide M2M fleet management GUI. Main tasks : Design web services / Develop business features an improve unit test coverage / Analyse and resolve software anomalies / Implement test automation solution / Provide technical assistance by responding to inquiries regarding errors on running systems. Main stack : Java (1.5 / 1.6), Junit, TestNG, Eclipse, Javascript, Maven 2, Jboss, Tomcat, Hudson, Ant, Oracle 10g, Selenium.