Work with me

If any of this sounds familiar:

  • You doubled the team but releases got slower, not faster
  • You acquired a company and now have two codebases, two cultures, and two teams that don’t talk to each other
  • Product and engineering are in a cold war, roadmap meetings feel like hostage negotiations
  • Your infrastructure costs doubled but nobody can explain why
  • You promoted your best engineer into management and now you’ve lost your best engineer and gained a struggling manager
  • You’re about to be acquired and have no idea what happens to your team, your stack, or your roadmap on the other side

I’ve been through all of this. Reach out on LinkedIn and let’s talk.

I run product and engineering at Getaround. I grew the org from ~20 to 60+ engineers, then scaled it back down when the business needed it. I led the engineering side of merging five companies into one product. Teams spread across France, Eastern Europe, the US, Canada, and South America. Multiple stacks in parallel: Rails monolith, JS serverless, Python services, Kubernetes and Heroku.

I’m not a full-time consultant. I advise a handful of companies going through the same things I deal with daily. Think a few hours a week, with the occasional deeper dive. Everything I share is current, not something I did five years ago at a company I no longer work at.

Engineering Management & Org Scaling

Helping teams scale without losing speed. How to structure teams as you grow, when to add managers, when to hold off. I’ve built team structures, introduced engineering levels, set up processes that actually worked and killed the ones that didn’t.

Product & Engineering Alignment

Aligning what gets built with what the business needs. Roadmap planning, prioritization that survives contact with reality. I run both product and engineering now, so I see how this breaks down on each side.

Infrastructure & Platform Strategy

Architecture decisions that age well. Reliability, cost optimization, when to invest in a platform team. This is where I started: backend and infrastructure engineering, then reliability and data engineering, before moving into management.

Hiring Engineers & Leaders

Hiring people you’ll actually want to work with. Interview processes that work, sourcing beyond LinkedIn recruiter spam, and how to sell your company to senior candidates who have options. I’ve hired at every level, from junior engineers to engineering directors.

Acquisitions & Post-Merger Integration

Making mergers actually work, on both sides of the table. Reconciling two of everything: two codebases, two deploy pipelines, two on-call rotations. I’ve done this five times now, on both the acquiring and acquired side.

AI Adoption for Product & Engineering Teams

Helping teams figure out where AI actually helps and where it’s noise. How to integrate LLMs into engineering workflows without losing code quality, how to rethink product processes when PMs and designers can prototype faster, and how to keep humans in the loop where it matters.

Reach out on LinkedIn . First call is free, no strings. I’m based in Paris but mostly work remotely.

A bit of background

I studied computer science at Epitech in Paris and did a master’s at IIIT in Pune. Started with consulting gigs before joining startups, a year in San Francisco at Seesmic, then four years building a video casting platform.

I joined Drivy in 2014 as an engineer and worked my way up: head of reliability & data, VP of Engineering, and now VP of Product & Engineering at Getaround after the acquisition. I also build side projects from time to time.

Coaching: Weezic (web development), Yespark (code reviews & engineering practices).

Talks: Cloud Computing (Dauphine, 2018), MySQL Evolution at Getaround (2017), Pratiquer et entreprendre (HEC, 2014), Service Oriented Applications (Ruby Lugdunum, 2011), Ruby et son écosystème (Epitech, 2010).