About Damien
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Fluent
German
Basic
Experience
- QIMAChief Technology OfficerJanuary 2023 - September 2024 (1 year and 8 months)Paris, FranceQIMA is on a mission to offer clients smart solutions to make products consumers can trust. With a global reach spanning 100+ countries, QIMA serves the consumer products, food and life sciences industries, supporting more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers and food growers. The company combines on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions to bring accuracy and visibility for quality, safety and compliance data.▻ Led a diverse team of 150 professionals worldwide (Brazil, Mexico, France, Eastern Europe, India, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Philippines), fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, across Product, Tech, Data, Infrastructure, IT and Security▻ Directly responsible for the global IT and technology strategy, aligning it with QIMA's business goals, focusing on innovation and efficiency in the supply chain inspection, testing, and certification services▻ Championed the transformation towards a product-centric organization, shifting from traditional project-based approaches to foster agility and enhance customer value delivery▻ Pushed the company to adopt smart automations and Generative AI technology where it made sense (customer success, backoffice operations, automatic document reading) to improve operational efficiency▻ Successfully negotiated and managed multi-million dollar budgets, optimizing IT spend while ensuring technological advancements are aligned with strategic business outcome
- SpendeskDirector of EngineeringSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGDecember 2021 - February 2023 (1 year and 2 months)▻ Responsible for the engineering department dedicated to Spendesk's core product & integrations (100 engineers)▻ Built the technology strategy and vision as Spendesk moved from startup to scaleup▻ Worked closely with the CPO to build a highly efficient engineering organisation focusing on delighting our customers while improving our reliability and resilience▻ Scaled the engineering department from 40 to 100 engineers in France and remote EU as the company was going through hyper-growth▻ Conducted an org change to align teams with the different personas served by the product▻ Managed the customer care team to have it work closer with tech support
- DatadogSRE LeadershipDIGITAL AND ITNovember 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 1 month)▻ Scaled and organised the Core SRE organisation accross multiple timezones (US/EU) with a strong focus on resilience, automation and Chaos Engineering▻ Improved large scale game day process to make it scale with the company▻ Enabled the open sourcing of Datadog's Chaos Controller▻ Defined the new Systems Engineer hiring process and career path▻ Created the post-mortem reading group to maximise learning from incidents▻ Publicly Spoke about our processes and tools during customer - vendor gathering
Recommendations
These freelancer profiles also match your criteria
Agatha Frydrych
Backend Java Software Engineer
4.7
(3)
2
Baptiste Duhen
Fullstack developer
4.6
(4)
5
Amed Hamou
Senior Lead Developer
4
(2)
7
Audrey Champion
Web developer
4.3
(3)
4
Education
- MSC in Computer ScienceOxford Brookes University
- Diplôme d'ingénieurSupinfo Paris