Raphaël Kolm

Charging Point Operator for Electric Vehicles, team of 250+ over 10 countries. High-traffic backend system controlling a fleet of 5k+ distributed industrial IoT devices and B2B integration with payment systems and resellers. Operations and Development. Hands-on and direct collaboration with stakeholders, in an international team. Managed engineers in an international cross-functional team of 8. Direct collaboration with ~15 stakeholders. Improved roadmapping, project management, defect qualification, new-joiners onboarding path.

Startup ; AI tutor for energy field workers. Software architecture and strategy: no-code phase-out, vendor selection, recruitment of a founding engineer. Built a prototype of a data extract-transform-load platform (ETL).

SaaS aimed at urban planning specialists. Topics: advanced front-end, energy simulation, cartography, data visualisation. Full-stack architect & contributor: architecture decisions, full revamp strategy, legacy simplification, testing (unit + E2E). Mentored a team of 8 engineers (Software & Energy): structured rituals, led day-to-day delivery, QA. Product requirements writing, revamp strategy, prioritisation, long-range forecasts (reached ±20% accuracy).

Co-founded the company. Close to the strategy/business concerns (marketing, AARRR topics, operations, integration of 2 acquired companies). Three rounds of VC financing. Founding Engineer: bootstrapped and iterated on: - Web-based B2C marketplace: availability schedule, pricing, search engine, responsive UI, web analytics. Data integrations with Salesforce and Google as reservation provider. Served 10M+ users. - Workflow engine from online orders to confirmed bookings: state machine orchestration, data & analytics, configurable notifications system over SMS, e-mail and WhatsApp. - Architecture: backend-for-frontend, code sharing, re-engineerings between microservices and mono-repo, domain-specific languages - 🛠️ Python, SQLAlchemy, Vue, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Google Analytics, Metabase - Cloud deployment 🛠️ AWS EC2, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, Debian, HAProxy, Ansible Managed Product/Engineering teams of 3-8 contributors. - Delivery management: project scoping, design, estimates, continuous improvement - Raised the bar on SRE & quality practices: pragmatic approach aiming for zero bugs and clear SLOs

B2B SaaS platform for travel & expense management Integration with customer-side corporate IT (🛠️ C#, SAML, Oracle PL/SQL)