Robin
Product-driven Software Engineer and Entrepreneur with a unique blend of engineering expertise and business acumen from top-tier French institutions. Skilled at building high-impact, user-focused solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency. Passionate about solving business problems through fast iteration, data-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration.
Experience
- IndependentApr. 2025 β Present
Personal Projects Β· Martinique
- Working on personal projects (see Projects).
- Travel.
- Senior Software EngineerSept. 2021 β March 2025 (3.5 years)
Mos ($40M Series B - acquired) Β· Remote
- Project Management: 0 to 15% of new users came from referrals in a few weeks. Led development of features like gamification and referral, with weekly updates (Design, Data Analysis, BE logic, Notification flows) with designer, FE and communication teams.
- Search & Recommendation Optimisations: Increased recommendation satisfaction from 30% to +85%. Improved scholarships search and recommendations by reducing time for thousands of scholarships evaluations from minutes to seconds, improving search time from seconds to hundred of milliseconds (use of Algolia) and moving data from SQL to NoSQL (RDS β DynamoDB) with specific architecture and indexes for faster searches.
- Infrastructure and Performance Optimisations: Reduced AWS billing by 50%. Reduced Lambda runtime with standard code across microservices, logic and code optimisation. Maintained code quality for the team with code templates and internal packages.
- Data Engineering: Setup, configuration and management of warehouse (Snowflake), pipelines to ingest data, working closely with data scientists. Configuration and management of analytics tools plugged to the warehouse (Metabase).
- Backend Development: Worked on different BE core services and architectures (Scholarships Evaluations, Scholarships Search, Gamification, Referral, Bank Fraud detection, β¦) (Typescript, Lambda, SQS, Serverless).
- Analytics and Observability: Analytics Dashboards (Amplitude and Metabase). Improved observability by improving logging and error handling in microservices, setup & configuration of Datadog.
- Messaging & User Engagement: Push and Email notifications flows mainly for Gamification and Referral features.
- Frontend Development: Development and update of web logic to be used in specific features flow (ReactJS).
- Tech Stack & Tools: Typescript, Serverless, AWS (DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda), Algolia, Figma, Snowflake, Amplitude, Metabase, ReactJS, CustomerIO, Segment, Unit
- Head of InnovationSept. 2020 β Sept. 2021 (1 year)
Data Observer Β· Marseille
- Explored new business models for NLP monetisation: NLP services via APIs, Add-ons for NLP services (Google Sheet), 3rd party platform integrations (Gorgias).
- Improvement of internal tools for operators using NLP technologies on scrapped News data for institutional clients.
- Personal ProjectsApr. 2020 β Aug. 2020 (5 months)
Masky, Dool, Mieu Β· France
- Masky: Designed and sold 100+ personalized cotton masks via personal e-commerce store.
- Dool: Developed and deployed smart gate opener based on license plate recognition (RaspberryPi, NodeJS).
- Mieu: Built MVP for therapy matching service; onboarded initial therapist.
- Head of InnovationMarch 2018 β Nov. 2019 (1.5 years)
CHD Expert Β· Paris
- Led new product development (Business Plan & outsourced Software development) for big Bakery providers.
- Change of the company's data structure and technology stack.
- Worked on internal processes optimisations.
- Solution Engineer FreelanceNov. 2017 β Feb. 2018 (4 months)
Mindsay Β· Paris
- Implementation of complex use cases using company's technology (for known Airlines and Railways).
- Definition of chatbots architecture (Web, FB Messenger & Amazon Alexa).
- Connection to third-party data.
- CEOApr. 2016 β Oct. 2017 (1.5 years)
Citron Β· Paris
- Strategy, Vision, Business Plan, Pitch. Back & Front Development (Node.js, MongoDB). NLP & ML tools - creation and enrichment of natural language data sets. Data Structuration - storage and retrieval for efficient scale up. Conversation Design - from 5 to 20 messages per conversation & x5 retention rate.
- Acquired 100K+ users organically, with 30K MAUs and 2.5M+ messages exchanged - all with $0 in acquisition budget. +40% MoM messages growth. Project with major Telecommunication company. +50 press releases.
- CEO's right-hand3 months
Prynt Β· Paris
- Crowdfunding campaign preparation - +1.5M$ raised.
- Branding, Communication, Pitch. Client Segmentation, User acquisition.
Education
- MS HEC Entrepreneurs
HEC Paris β Top 1 French Business School
2015 β 2016 (1 year) Β· Paris
Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Strategy, Accounting, Financing
- Engineering Diploma
Arts et MΓ©tiers β Top tier French Engineering School
2012 β 2015 (3 years) Β· Paris & Aix
Maths, Computer Science, Product Design, Manufacturing, Management Sciences, Industry Organisation
Tools & skills
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frontend
React
React Native
Expo
Next.js
Figma
Backend
Node.js
Serverless
- REST APIs
MongoDB
Data & Infrastructure
AWS
Lambda
DynamoDB
SQS
AppSync
Snowflake
Algolia
Analytics & Observability
Amplitude
Metabase
Datadog
Segment
Product & ways of working
- Project management
- Product development
- Data-driven decisions
- Cross-functional collaboration
Product tools
Notion
Linear
Tools & DevOps
Git
Vercel
Raspberry Pi