
Rémi Gélibert
Engineering Leader | Multi-Squad Leadership | DDD,
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Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
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Introduction
Engineering leader based in Dubai, with 15+ years of experience across software architecture, product delivery, consulting, fintech, SaaS and regulated digital assets. I lead multi-squad organisations where technical direction, people development, delivery discipline, reliability and business outcomes must progress together. At Vancelian, I helped scale Product and Engineering from 6 to up to 56 contributors across four cross-functional squads, supporting a platform processing 1.25M events per day, with 800+ production deployments per year and a 1h23 mean time to recovery. My engineering approach combines Domain-Driven Design, distributed and event-driven systems, Team Topologies, strong team ownership, automated delivery and pragmatic operational excellence. I work closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, Compliance and Business teams to remove dependencies and turn complex requirements into reliable outcomes. Developing people is central to my leadership. At Sopra Steria, I personally mentored 12 colleagues, contributing to the emergence of new architects within the agency. I aim to grow autonomous leaders rather than concentrate knowledge or decisions around myself. I remain technically grounded in Java/Spring, APIs, cloud platforms, AWS, Kubernetes, data platforms and software architecture. More recently, I have also applied AI-assisted workflows to product discovery, delivery and operations, with governance and expert oversight. Core areas: Engineering Leadership | Multi-Squad Delivery | Domain-Driven Design | Distributed Systems | Platform Reliability | People Development | Team Topologies | Product Engineering | Fintech | Cloud Platforms
Expérience de travail
Confidential
oct. 2021 - oct. 2026
5 ans 1 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
CPTO - Chief Product & Technology Officer
juin 2025 - oct. 2026
1 an 5 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
Led product and technology fintech strategy across Dubai and European operations, aligning customer, business and regulatory priorities with product roadmaps and engineering capacity. - Owned B2C, B2B and internal product portfolios, with shared outcomes and KPIs across Product and Engineering; - Built and mentored cross-functional product teams with clear ownership, decision rights, Scrum cadences and continuous improvement practices; - Connected product analytics, customer feedback and Customer.io lifecycle journeys to support onboarding, adoption, retention and upsell; - Led AI-assisted workflows across product discovery, software delivery, internal operations and decision support, with practical governance and expert oversight; - Served as a Board member, translating product, technology and compliance trade-offs into clear decisions; - Enabled 800+ deployments per year through stronger delivery practices, automation, release governance and measurable engineering standards. - Led an organisation of up to 56 Product and Engineering contributors across four cross-functional squads. - Set technical standards covering Domain-Driven Design, architecture reviews, observability, incident response and technical debt management.
Chief Technology Officer
oct. 2021 - mai 2025
3 ans 8 mois
France
Led the technology function through the scale-up of a regulated fintech and digital-assets platform across Europe. - Restructured the organisation into 4 cross-functional product teams with clear ownership, Scrum ceremonies, outcome-based roadmaps, shared KPIs and continuous improvement; - Oversaw the launch and evolution of the B2C mobile application and B2B platform, coordinating Product, Engineering, Compliance and operational readiness; - Built and scaled cloud-native infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes and MongoDB; - Supported KYC, AML automation, data archiving and regulatory-readiness initiatives; - Owned technology capabilities spanning crypto trading, portfolio management, fiat deposits, wallets and debit card features; - Applied Team Topologies to reduce cognitive load, clarify interfaces and improve team scalability. - Applied Domain-Driven Design to establish domain and service boundaries, reduce coupling and align technical ownership with business capabilities. - Evolved the platform towards an event-driven architecture with Kafka, processing 1.25M events per day. - Strengthened engineering quality through automated testing, architecture reviews, observability and incident-response practices, achieving a 1h23 average MTTR. - Mentored engineers and emerging technical leaders, strengthening autonomy and technical decision-making across teams.
Chief Technology Officer
WeOpt
sept. 2018 - oct. 2021
3 ans 2 mois
Monaco
Led the technology function of an early-stage start-up building a mobile application for poker players and a SaaS platform for casinos to manage capacity, customer flow and revenue optimisation. - Built the backend architecture from scratch, including microservices, testing frameworks and development standards ; - Designed and implemented the core technical foundations supporting both the mobile application and the casino SaaS platform ; - Led cloud deployment on AWS, initially using the Netflix OSS stack before transitioning to Kubernetes ; - Set-up development environments, engineering practices and delivery workflows to improve team efficiency ; - Recruited, trained and supported backend and frontend developers during the product build phase ; - Introduced a lightweight Scrum delivery process to improve collaboration, prioritisation and execution ; - Worked closely with business stakeholders to translate product vision into scalable technical solutions. - Applied Domain-Driven Design to translate B2C and B2B business capabilities into explicit Java/Spring service boundaries and an evolvable architecture.
Sopra Steria
mars 2009 - oct. 2018
9 ans 8 mois
Sophia Antipolis
Principal Engineer (Architecte Java EE)
févr. 2012 - oct. 2018
6 ans 9 mois
Sophia Antipolis
Progressed from Software Engineer to Principal Engineer within a major European IT consulting environment, delivering software engineering, architecture and cloud transformation assignments for enterprise clients. - Led Java and Spring software engineering and architecture assignments for enterprise clients ; Acted as Tech Lead, providing technical guidance, code reviews, mentoring and developer training ; - Served as AWS Cloud Architect, contributing to pre-sales, technical scoping, team sizing and architecture foundations ; - Management of 8 staff team ; - Supported project teams in resolving complex architecture, integration, performance and security challenges ; - Collaborated with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable software solutions ; - Contributed to feasibility assessments, risk analysis and technical recommendations for client projects ; - Acted as the Lead Technical Manager of the agency (referent of 250 employees) - Management of the agency's projects (implementation, staffing, support) - Implementation of quality procedures, standardization - Career management of technical staff Technologies used : - Technologies used: - Application server Jboss EAP6 (AS7) - Java EE, struts2, struts2jquery, Hibernate 4, Spring (core, security), freemarker. - Oracle 11G R2 - GCL SVN - Eclipse Juno (checkstyle, pmd) - Maven - Fuse ESB, JBoss EAP 6.2, GWT, Apache Camel (and continuous integration) Various other types of missions: - Participation in pre-sales; estimates, technical analysis, writing of distributed software architectures, - interventions on Java EE Web application developments, - support/coaching of trainees in the development of mobile applications (native iOs, android, HTML5/php applications). - personally supported 12 colleagues in their development, contributing to the emergence of new architects within the agency.
Ingénieur d'études et développement / Responsable Technique
mars 2009 - mars 2012
3 ans 1 mois
Sophia antipolis
Diverses missions pendant 3 années. Principalement du développement et de l'encadrement de nouveaux arrivants sur le projet - Combined hands-on Java EE development with technical leadership, onboarding and structured knowledge transfer for new project members.
Formation
Université Paul Cézanne
M2, Informatique - Systèmes d'informations
2004 - 2009
5 ans 1 mois
Licences et certifications
Apache Camel
Délivré le : oct. 2026
AWS Solutions Architect
Délivré le : oct. 2026
Cyberdiplômé avancé
Délivré le : nov. 2024