Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience designing
and operating hyper-scale distributed systems. Proven track record of
leading large engineering organizations (25+ engineers) through complex
architectural transformations. Expert in aligning technical vision
across diverse teams, negotiating high-stakes tradeoffs with senior
management, and delivering critical infrastructure through progressive,
value-driven milestones.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Area Tech Lead) Google Zürich,
Switzerland 2025 – Present
- Organizational Leadership: Serve as the Area Tech
Lead for the Rollouts Infrastructure, directing technical strategy for
25 engineers across three teams in Zürich and Dublin.
- Consensus Building: Successfully align distinct
teams with competing priorities to ensure a consistent architectural
direction. Facilitate cross-functional agreement on standards, enabling
teams to operate independently while contributing to a unified
organizational goal.
- Strategic Alignment: Define the roadmap for
Google’s rollout core infrastructure, ensuring synergy between local
team success and broader organizational mandates.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Tech Lead) Google Zürich,
Switzerland 2020 – 2025
- Strategic Delivery: Led a senior “tiger team” (3
Staff, 3 Senior Engineers) tasked with fixing Google’s core actuation
system. Made trade-offs between what to re-use, what to update and what
to build to provide the most value at the best short and long term cost.
Increasing flexibility and velocity by allowing concurrent rollouts of
different aspects (e.g. to deploy a new version at the same time as
refootprinting a service),. Increase Reliability:
Monitoring end to end success of rollouts, using metrics to drive down
failures.
- Stakeholder Management: Interface with high-level
management to navigate complex trade-offs between delivery speed and
quality (prioritizing delivery order for maximum velocity).
- Technical Execution: Architected and implemented
high-reliability solutions using Go and
C++ on Linux/Borg (Google’s internal precursor to
Kubernetes).
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Google Zürich, Switzerland 2015 –
2020
- Platform Engineering: Architected and led the
development of a unified platform to manage production (Configuration,
Monitoring, Capacity Planning, LB, CI/CD) for internal Google
services.
- Scale & Impact: Scaled the platform to manage
over 10,000 services across all parts of Google (Cloud,
Workspace, YouTube, Search, etc.) becoming a standard tool for service
management at Google.
- Team Leadership: Led a core team of 6 engineers and
coordinated contributions from dozens of external teams. Defined
technical vision and mentored engineers to successful project
execution.
- User-Centric Design: Prioritized the development
roadmap based on critical user needs and business value, driving high
internal adoption.
- Tech Stack: Development in Go and
Python on Linux.
Site Reliability Engineer Google Zürich, Switzerland 2013 – 2015
- Technical Leadership: Tech Lead for SRE teams
owning various Google Apps services.
- Operational Excellence: Led initiatives in
Monitoring, Performance improvements, Capacity Planning, and Continuous
Deployment.
Software Engineer Winamax Paris, France September 2011 – December
2012
- Developed and maintained the backend engine for France’s leading
poker platform, supporting 30,000 concurrent
players.
- Engineered high-performance solutions in C and
C++ on Linux (Debian).
Software Engineer CSSI - Communication & Systems Le Plessis
Robinson, France 2007 – 2011
- Designed technical architecture for banking routing projects.
- Optimized low-level libraries (Network, Thread, Shared Memory) in
C++ on AIX and Linux.
- Acted as Scrum Master and provided C++ training to the team.
Master’s Degree in Engineering (Computer Science) EFREI Villejuif,
France 2001 – 2004
Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie IUT de Vélizy Vélizy, France
2000 – 2001