
William Guerzeder
VP of Engineering | SaaS & Platform Management
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
VP of Engineering with 9+ years leading technical teams and delivering 99.9% SLO AI SaaS solutions. Expert in platform engineering, DevOps transformation, and scaling engineering organizations from startups to enterprise. Specialized in cloud architecture, team leadership, and driving technical strategy that aligns with business goals.
Work experience
Golem.ai
Jun 2022 - Present
4 years 5 months
Paris, France
VP of Engineering
Sep 2023 - Present
3 years 2 months
Paris, France
Active Member of the company’s executive leadership ~ 15 people team management responsibility Delivers a 99.9% SLO level AI SaaS [Strategy] Define and implement the company’s technical vision and strategy, aligned with business goals. Ensure technology solutions meet customer needs and performance requirements. Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge. [Management and Talent development] Lead and manage the engineering teams, fostering innovation and collaboration. Define and enforce the Tech. organization model with role, responsibilities. Recruit, mentor, and retain top technical talent in an investment recessive context. [Service Delivery SaaS and on-premises] Process and oversee the design, development, delivery and maintenance of services. 24/7 operational condition maintenance, meeting performance and resiliency requirements. Mitigate technical risks, ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards. [Budget] Forecast and manage technology budgets and resources for the year to go. Reduce operational expenses and deploy Finops best practices. Apply for government grant programs (CIR, CII, subvention BPI France)
Platform Engineering Manager
Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
2 years 8 months
Paris, France
Managing the Platform team at Golem.ai to provide the infrastructure and services required to run efficiently Golem.ai's applications. Caring of : Costs, Security, Resiliency, Developer experience and Performance of the platform to meet customer's expectations
BNP Paribas
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
3 years 11 months
93100 Montreuil, France
Solution Architect for Dedicated Cloud program
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
2 years 11 months
93100 Montreuil, France
Solution Architect for DevOps Transformation program
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
1 year 2 months
Région de Montreuil, France
As DevOps is reducing time to market and increasing quality in software delivery, the transformation of the Bank's IT has became a priority. In this context, I am coaching Dev teams about DevOps culture, good pratices and tooling. Leading change working on teams mindset to become DevOps oriented, I am also giving an operationnal support to onboard Apps on the DevOps tooling by designing CI/CD pipelines.
Ingénieur R&D Informatique
IDEMIA
Jun 2015 - Oct 2018
3 years 5 months
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
At Idemia ( ex : Safran Identity & Security) in the Product and Innovation Department. Working as a software integrator for cloud computing services (SAAS and PAAS) in order to provides ID proofing and credential management solutions to the banking industry and for governments. At the interface between product development team and business units, my role is to deploy and integrate software application, troubleshoot, manage problems and set up BI tooling in order to provide solutions that match business requirements.
Final year internship - research assistant
Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
8 months
Dublin City University
The aim of the project was to test the validity of using a wearable garment for human activity monitoring as a part of home-based sleep apnea screening application. It involved designing an algorithm for data processing, collected during clinical trials,and generating a screening technique that mimic the curent gold standard of sleep apnea monitoring.
Education
Aix-Marseille University
MASTER RECHERCHE MINELEC
2013 - 2014
2 years
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Ingénieur des Mines - Spécialité Microélectronique, Informatique et Nouvelles Technologies
2011 - 2014
4 years